@inproceedings{dollinger2024bodyswap,
 abstract = {Virtual reality (VR) offers various opportunities for innovative therapeutic approaches, especially regarding self-related mind-body interventions. We introduce a VR body swap system enabling multiple users to swap their perspectives and appearances and evaluate its effects on virtual sense of embodiment (SoE) and perception- and cognition-based self-related processes. In a self-compassion-framed scenario, twenty participants embodied their personalized, photorealistic avatar, swapped bodies with an unfamiliar peer, and reported their SoE, interoceptive awareness (perception), and self-compassion (cognition). Participants' experiences differed between bottom-up and top-down processes. Regarding SoE, their agency and self-location shifted to the swap avatar, while their top-down self-identification remained with their personalized avatar. Further, the experience positively affected interoceptive awareness but not self-compassion. Our outcomes offer novel insights into the SoE in a multiple-embodiment scenario and highlight the need to differentiate between the different processes in intervention design. They raise concerns and requirements for future research on avatar-based mind-body interventions.},
 added-at = {2024-05-01T11:03:51.000+0200},
 author = {Döllinger, Nina and Mal, David and Keppler, Sebastian and Wolf, Erik and Botsch, Mario and Israel, Johann Habakuk and Latoschik, Marc Erich and Wienrich, Carolin},
 biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2dd5ee9c174e2308a2d6e39474f11caa5/ewolf},
 booktitle = {2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
 doi = {10.1145/3613904.3642328},
 interhash = {92800e62dd3406a2008de931dfcf2a41},
 intrahash = {dd5ee9c174e2308a2d6e39474f11caa5},
 keywords = {myown},
 pages = {1-18},
 timestamp = {2025-05-19T20:26:27.000+0200},
 title = {Virtual Body Swapping: A VR-Based Approach to Embodied Third-Person Self-Processing in Mind-Body Therapy},
 url = {https://publications.wolf-research.com/2024-chi-bodyswap-preprint.pdf},
 year = {2024}
}