Social touch is an important tool to communicate emotions but it’s still unclear how it could promote and maintain social bonds between individuals. Immersive Virtual Reality offers unprecedented opportunities to explore the effect of somatosensory stimuli (like pain and touch) even when they are not actually delivered. We found that the the mere observation of touch kinematics delivered on a first person perspective embodied avatar causes different behavioural and psychophysiological reactions according to the gender of the participant, the gender of the toucher and the area touched .The vicarious experience in virtual reality allows to address more directly a delicate issue that can otherwise be explored only through imagination). .
Vicarious touch in Immersive Virtual Reality / Lisi, Matteo; Fusaro, M.; Tieri, G.. - (2019). (Intervento presentato al convegno Virtual and Robotic Embodiment - from Neuroscience to Virtual Reality and Robotics tenutosi a Barcelona,Spain).
Vicarious touch in Immersive Virtual Reality
LISI, MATTEO;Fusaro M.;Tieri G.
2019
Abstract
Social touch is an important tool to communicate emotions but it’s still unclear how it could promote and maintain social bonds between individuals. Immersive Virtual Reality offers unprecedented opportunities to explore the effect of somatosensory stimuli (like pain and touch) even when they are not actually delivered. We found that the the mere observation of touch kinematics delivered on a first person perspective embodied avatar causes different behavioural and psychophysiological reactions according to the gender of the participant, the gender of the toucher and the area touched .The vicarious experience in virtual reality allows to address more directly a delicate issue that can otherwise be explored only through imagination). .I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
