A Novel Rubber Hand Illusion Paradigm Allowing Active Self-Touch With Variable Force Feedback Controlled by a Haptic Device.

This paper introduces an approach for manipulating bodily self-consciousness, in particular, senses of body ownership and illusory self-touch by using a robotic/haptic technology. This study especially focuses on the rubber hand illusion (RHI). In the classic RHI paradigm, an invisible participant's hand and a visible fake rubber hand are manually stimulated by an experimenter. However, our approa...