"Finger Breaker": Exploring the Perception of Pain in Virtual Reality using Perceptual Manipulations
This project was published as a Late Breaking Work at CHI'23 ( https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544549.3585674 ). In this paper, we explored the possibility to use VR to create what we call “Virtual Pain” : a feeling of physical pain higher than what is physically experienced by someone. We built an VR application where the user sees their virtual finger dislocate, while their real finger is only bent to a safe angle by a haptic prototype....