Exploring Ownership of an Avatar's Cat Ears through Visual, Auditory, and Haptic Multimodal Feedback
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Date
2025
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Extensions of body parts that humans are not innately endowed with, such as supernumerary limbs, have attracted attention. Since these body parts resemble existing ones, their movements and sensations can be inferred from the innately existing body parts. However, the sense of ownership for imaginary body parts, such as cat ears, which humans have never possessed, has not been sufficiently investigated. This paper proposes an experiment to examine the changing sense of ownership of cat ears, a body part that humans are not innately endowed with, through multimodal feedback that integrates visual, auditory, and haptic stimuli. Using an avatar with cat ears attached to the top of the head, we suggest presenting visual stimuli of the avatar's cat ears along with spatially congruent auditory and haptic feedback to enhance the sense of ownership over imaginary cat ears.
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CCS Concepts: Human-centered computing → Haptic devices; Auditory feedback
@inproceedings{10.2312:egve.20251366,
booktitle = {ICAT-EGVE 2025 - International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments - Posters and Demos},
editor = {Garro, Valeria and Young, Gareth and Elwardy, Majed},
title = {{Exploring Ownership of an Avatar's Cat Ears through Visual, Auditory, and Haptic Multimodal Feedback}},
author = {Yamamura, Hiroo and Kondo, Ryota and Sakurada, Kuniharu and Normand, Jean-Marie and Sugimoto, Maki},
year = {2025},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1727-530X},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-279-0},
DOI = {10.2312/egve.20251366}
}