Over the last 20 years, virtual reality (VR) has been widely used to promote mental health in
populations presenting different clinical conditions. Mental health does not refer only to the …

In catastrophic situations such as pandemics, patients' healthcare including admissions to
hospitals and emergency services are challenged by the risk of infection and by limitations …

Modulating emotional responses to virtual stimuli is a fundamental goal of many immersive
interactive applications. In this study, we leverage the illusion of illusory embodiment and …

Computer scientists usually describe virtual reality (VR) as a set of fancy hardware and
software technologies. However, psychology and neuroscience are starting to consider VR …

As part of the open sourcing of the Microsoft Rocketbox avatar library for research and
academic purposes, here we discuss the importance of rigged avatars for the Virtual and …

The current study introduces a new paradigm for exploring cognitive factors in pain.
Interacting with virtual objects via embodied avatar hands increased the illusion of “being …

Some recent papers by P. Lush and colleagues have argued that the rubber hand illusion
(RHI), where participants can feel a rubber hand as their own under appropriate …

How our brain represents our body through the integration of internal and external sensory
information so that we can interact with our surrounding environment has become a matter …

Severe pain is a widespread health problem in need of novel treatment approaches. In the
current study we used real water to give virtual objects (ie, animated virtual water) more …

Virtual reality (VR) constitutes an alternative, effective, and increasingly utilized treatment
option for people suffering from psychiatric and neurological illnesses. However, the …