Real Time Remapping of a Third Arm in Virtual Reality

Drogemuller, Adam; verhulst, adrien; Volmer, Benjamin; Thomas, Bruce; Inami, Masahiko; Sugimoto, Maki

Real Time Remapping of a Third Arm in Virtual Reality

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Date

2019

Authors

Drogemuller, Adam
verhulst, adrien
Volmer, Benjamin
Thomas, Bruce
Inami, Masahiko
Sugimoto, Maki

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

We present an initial study investigating the usability of a system for users to use their own limbs (here the left arm, right arm, left leg, right leg and head) to remap and control a virtual third arm. The remapping was done by: pre-selecting the limb by gazing over it, then selecting it by voice activation (here we asked the participants to say ''switch''). The system was evaluated in Virtual Reality (VR), where we recorded the performance of participants (N=12, within-group design) in 2 box collection tasks. We found that participants self-reported: (i) significantly less body ownership in switching limbs than in not switching limbs; and (ii) less effort in switching limbs than not switching limbs. In addition, we found that dominant limbs do not significantly affect remap decisions in controlling the third arm.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:egve.20191281
,
booktitle = {ICAT-EGVE 2019 - International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments
},
editor = {Kakehi, Yasuaki and Hiyama, Atsushi
},
title = {{Real Time Remapping of a Third Arm in Virtual Reality
}},
author = {Drogemuller, Adam and 
verhulst, adrien and 
Volmer, Benjamin and 
Thomas, Bruce and 
Inami, Masahiko and 
Sugimoto, Maki
},
year = {2019
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-530X
},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-083-3
},
DOI = {10.2312/egve.20191281
}
}