VR空間における仮想手の光点提示に対する身体所有感

抄録

In this paper, by classifying a morphological similarity between the human hand and a virtual/man-made hand into structural and appearance similarities, we investigated sense of body consciousness and visual body-part localization for the virtual hands of point-lights and skeleton displays for which structural similarity was high but the appearance similarity was extremely low. In the first experiment, questionnaire ratings of the senses of agency for both displays were high in training of a finger movement task. Because each of the senses of body ownership was evaluated as a bimodal distribution, participants were classified into higher and lower groups. The senses of both of the lower groups were significantly low. The senses of the higher group for the skeleton display were significantly high for the training. For the point-lights display, although the senses of the lower group were relatively low at the beginning of the training, the senses increased to the same rating as those for the skeleton display through the training. In the second experiment, the fingertip positions of each display were shifted to the left by 15 cm. Although the senses of agency were significantly high for both displays, the senses of body ownership of both were significantly low. The drift of the visual body-part localization rose and the proprioceptive drift was also observed after the training. Thus, these results indicate that a sense of body ownership occurs even for a point-lights display, and moreover, the drifts rise even when the sense is not felt.