ShareYourReality: Investigating Haptic Feedback and Agency in Virtual Avatar Co-embodiment
Abstract
1 Introduction
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2 Background and Related Work
2.1 Virtual avatar co-embodiment and the Sense of Agency
2.2 Avatar co-embodiment control sharing techniques
2.3 Haptics for virtual co-embodied experiences
2.4 Perceptual crossing paradigm for enhancing social coordination
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3 Methods
3.1 Study design
3.2 Protocol
3.2.1 Joint action reaching tasks.
3.2.2 Training.
3.2.3 Task 1: Targeted.
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3.2.4 Task 2: Free-choice.
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3.3 Measures
3.3.1 Objective measures.
3.3.2 Subjective measures.
3.4 Hardware and software setup
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3.4.1 Haptic feedback design.
Pattern type | Pattern intensity | Perceived (mean) intensity | Perceived (mean) comfort |
Intermittent | 10 | 3.2 | 4.4 |
Intermittent | 20 | 3.6 | 4.4 |
Intermittent | 30 | 4.5 | 3.8 |
Intermittent | 40 | 5.2 | 3.4 |
Heartbeat | 10 | 1.8 | 5.2 |
Heartbeat | 20 | 3.3 | 4.2 |
Heartbeat | 30 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
Heartbeat | 40 | 4 | 3.8 |
Sinusoidal | 10 | 3.4 | 5.1 |
Sinusoidal | 20 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
Sinusoidal | 30 | 5.4 | 3.8 |
Sinusoidal | 40 | 4.2 | 3.6 |
Constant | 10 | 3.8 | 4.1 |
Constant | 20 | 5.3 | 3.2 |
Constant | 30 | 6.6 | 2.4 |
Constant | 40 | 6.7 | 2.2 |
3.5 Study procedure
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3.5.1 Participants.
4 Analysis and Results
4.1 Pre-processing and analysis approach
4.1.1 Synchrony measure.
4.1.2 Statistical analysis approach.
4.2 Quantitative results
Response Variable | Factor | Level | Mean | Median | SD | F | df | p | \(\eta _{p}^{2}\) |
Sense of Agency | Task | Task 1 | 4.53 | 5.00 | 1.44 | 172.02 | 1 | <.000*** | 0.16 |
Task 2 | 3.45 | 3.00 | 1.45 | ||||||
Haptics | On | 3.86 | 4.00 | 1.57 | 12.93 | 1 | <.000*** | 0.01 | |
Off | 4.12 | 4.00 | 1.5 | ||||||
Control | W25 | 4.05 | 4.00 | 1.53 | 0.24 | 2 | 0.78 | 0 | |
W50 | 3.97 | 4.00 | 1.54 | ||||||
W75 | 3.96 | 4.00 | 1.56 | ||||||
Task x Haptics | - | - | - | - | 13.61 | 1 | <.000*** | 0.01 | |
Task x Control | - | - | - | - | 0.30 | 2 | 0.74 | 0 | |
Haptics x Control | - | - | - | - | 0.52 | 2 | 0.59 | 0 | |
Task x Haptics x Control | - | - | - | - | 0.05 | 2 | 0.95 | 0 | |
Co-presence 1 | Task | Task 1 | 4.30 | 5.00 | 2.00 | 26.35 | 1 | <.000*** | 0.18 |
Task 2 | 5.35 | 6.00 | 1.64 | ||||||
Haptics | On | 4.84 | 5.00 | 1.88 | 0.24 | 1 | 0.62 | 0 | |
Off | 4.81 | 5.00 | 1.93 | ||||||
Task x Haptics | - | - | - | - | 0.80 | 1 | 0.37 | 0.01 | |
Co-presence 2 | Task | Task 1 | 3.54 | 3.00 | 1.92 | 34.38 | 1 | <.000*** | 0.23 |
Task 2 | 4.71 | 5.00 | 1.81 | ||||||
Haptics | On | 4.15 | 4.00 | 1.95 | 0.03 | 1 | 0.86 | 0 | |
Off | 4.10 | 4.00 | 1.96 | ||||||
Task x Haptics | - | - | - | - | 2.31 | 1 | 0.13 | 0.02 | |
Co-presence 3 | Task | Task 1 | 3.68 | 4.00 | 1.80 | 28.28 | 1 | <.000*** | 0.19 |
Task 2 | 4.80 | 5.00 | 1.76 | ||||||
Haptics | On | 4.09 | 4.00 | 1.86 | 1.24 | 1 | 0.27 | 0.01 | |
Off | 4.39 | 5.00 | 1.86 | ||||||
Task x Haptics | - | - | - | - | 0.51 | 1 | 0.48 | 0 | |
Body Ownership 1 | Task | Task 1 | 5.29 | 5.00 | 1.08 | 1.72 | 1 | 0.19 | 0.01 |
Task 2 | 4.93 | 5.00 | 1.45 | ||||||
Haptics | On | 5.00 | 5.00 | 1.27 | 1.42 | 1 | 0.24 | 0.01 | |
Off | 5.21 | 5.00 | 1.30 | ||||||
Task x Haptics | - | - | - | - | 0.22 | 1 | 0.64 | 0 | |
Body Ownership 2 | Task | Task 1 | 5.15 | 5.00 | 1.30 | 0.38 | 1 | <.001** | 0.08 |
Task 2 | 5.55 | 6.00 | 1.47 | ||||||
Haptics | On | 5.30 | 6.00 | 1.30 | 1.00 | 1 | 0.32 | 0.01 | |
Off | 5.40 | 6.00 | 1.51 | ||||||
Task x Haptics | - | - | - | - | 1.31 | 1 | 0.26 | 0.01 | |
Body Ownership 3 | Task | Task 1 | 4.43 | 4.50 | 1.40 | 0.99 | 1 | 0.32 | 0.01 |
Task 2 | 4.23 | 4.00 | 1.58 | ||||||
Haptics | On | 4.31 | 4.00 | 1.45 | 0.01 | 1 | 0.94 | 0.00 | |
Off | 4.34 | 4.50 | 1.54 | ||||||
Task x Haptics | - | - | - | - | 0.09 | 1 | 0.77 | 0 | |
Mean Rolling Spearman’s Rank Correlation coefficient | Task | Task 1 | 0.39 | 0.41 | 0.21 | 57.15 | 1 | <.000*** | 0.11 |
Task 2 | 0.27 | 0.25 | 0.20 | ||||||
Haptics | On | 0.34 | 0.36 | 0.20 | 2.02 | 1 | 0.15 | 0 | |
Off | 0.32 | 0.33 | 0.22 | ||||||
Control | W25 | 0.34 | 0.37 | 0.21 | 2.96 | 1 | 0.08 | 0 | |
W50 | 0.31 | 0.28 | 0.21 | ||||||
W75 | 0.34 | 0.36 | 0.22 | ||||||
Task x Haptics | - | - | - | - | 1.10 | 1 | 0.29 | 0 | |
Task x Control | - | - | - | - | 0.04 | 1 | 0.83 | 0 | |
Haptics x Control | - | - | - | - | 0.25 | 1 | 0.61 | 0 | |
Task x Haptics x Control | - | - | - | - | 2.36 | 1 | 0.12 | 0 |
4.2.1 Sense of Agency.
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4.2.2 Co-presence.
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4.2.3 Body ownership.
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4.2.4 Controller motion synchronization.
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4.2.5 IPQ Presence ratings.
4.2.6 SSQ Motion sickness.
4.3 Qualitative results
4.3.1 Frustration with shared decisions.
4.3.2 Perception of shared motion.
4.3.3 Following and leading.
4.3.4 Motion synchrony.
4.3.5 Perception of vibration patterns and associations.
5 Discussion
5.1 Study limitations and future work
5.2 Elucidating the role of haptic feedback and avatar control distribution for virtual avatar co-embodiment
5.3 Shared control, motor synchrony, and perceptual crossing across targeted and free-choice tasks
6 Conclusion
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