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SUMMARY:Body ownership and agency illusions in immersive virtual reality  
 - a tool for change - Mel Slater\, University of Barcelona
DTSTART:20160811T101500Z
DTEND:20160811T111500Z
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CONTACT:Hatice Gunes
DESCRIPTION:Immersive virtual reality (IVR) has been successfully exploite
 d in the study of body ownership illusions - a topic that contributes to t
 he question of how the human brain represents the body. Embodiment with a 
 life-sized virtual body (VB) seen from first person perspective in IVR typ
 ically leads to the perceptual illusion of ownership and the illusion agen
 cy with respect to the virtual body. Since the real body can be replaced b
 y a VB\, the VB may be designed to have quite different characteristics fr
 om the real one - for example\, be a different age or race. Here we report
  how different types of body can at least temporarily influence aspects of
  perception\, attitudes and behaviours of participants\, lead to illusory 
 agency\, and the consequences of these findings for rehabilitation at both
  the personal level (psychological rehabilitation) and the social (e.g.\, 
 reducing outgroup prejudice).
LOCATION:SS03 Meeting Room\, Computer Laboratory
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