ArticleFrontiers in robotics and AI2020
Which Body Would You Like to Have? The Impact of Embodied Perspective on Body Perception and Body Evaluation in Immersive Virtual Reality.
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- Anorexia Nervosa, Body Image Perception and Virtual Reality Therapeutic Applications: State of the Art and Operational Proposal.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
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- Inducing and measuring identity levels in professional rugby players during immersion in an interactive virtual environment.PloS one · 2026Article
- Novel online enfacement illusion for investigating self-perception in mental disorders: an experimental study protocol.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Immersive interfaces for clinical applications: current status and future perspective.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2024Review
- Changes in self-other boundaries modulate children's body image attitudes.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Perception of Cosmetic Procedures among Middle Eastern Youth.The Journal of clinical and aesthetic dermatology · 2021Article
- Use of a real-life practical context changes the relationship between implicit body representations and real body measurements.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Repeated Exposure to Illusory Sense of Body Ownership and Agency Over a Moving Virtual Body Improves Executive Functioning and Increases Prefrontal Cortex Activity in the Elderly.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
In this experiment, we aimed to measure the conscious internal representation of one's body appearance and allow the participants to compare this to their ideal body appearance and to their real body appearance. We created a virtual representation of the internal image participants had of their own body shape. We also created a virtual body corresponding to the internal representation they had of their ideal body shape, and we built another virtual body based on their real body measures. Participants saw the three different virtual bodies from an embodied first-person perspective and from a third-person perspective and had to evaluate the appearance of those virtual bodies. We observed that female participants evaluated their real body as more attractive when they saw it from a third-person perspective, and that their level of body dissatisfaction was lower after the experimental procedure. We believe that third-person perspective allowed female participants to perceive their real body shape without applying the negative prior beliefs usually associated to the "self", and that this resulted in a more positive evaluation of their body shape. We speculate that this method could be applied with patients suffering from eating disorders, by making their body perception more realistic and therefore improve their body satisfaction.
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