Investigation of Phantom Sensation Control by Visual Stimuli(<Special issue>VR Psychology VI)

Abstract

In this paper, we investigated to control a phantom sensation by visual stimuli. A phantom sensation is one of tactile illusion caused by vibration stimuli. Some previous works employed vibration motors for a tactile display, and utilized a phantom sensation to present tactile stimuli in a large area with a few vibration motors. Our research is to control tactile perception by visual stimuli. Our previous works showed that visual stimuli influence tactile perception. From the results, we considered that it is also possible to control a phantom sensation by visual stimuli. We made a primitive visual-tactile display, and conducted some experiments. The results showed that visual stimuli influenced a phantom sensation and it seemed to be possible to cause or not to cause a phantom sensation by visual stimuli.