Investigating Self-Body Perception and its Effect on Affordance in Augmented Reality
Etienne Peillard, Marie-Cécile Léculier, Malena Joly, Nathalie Le Bigot
June, 2026
Abstract
We present an augmented-reality system that modifies the apparent width of a user’s body and a user study examining how this transformation affects self-body perception and perceived affordance. The results show that the system can modify participants’ affordances and highlight strong individual variability, including interactions with embodiment and initial body perception.
Publication
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 23(3), 1–20

Associate Professor
IMT Atlantique
LS2N
CNRS IRL CROSSING
My research focuses on perception and embodied interaction in Virtual and Augmented Reality, including augmented affordances, body perception, and human-system cooperation in immersive environments.

Marie-Cécile Léculier
PhD Student in Augmented Reality
IMT Atlantique, Lab-STICC, UMR CNRS 6285, Brest, France
Research collaborator on body perception and interaction in Augmented Reality.
Malena Joly
Researcher in Perception and Augmented Reality
Univ Brest, Lab-STICC, UMR CNRS 6285, Brest, France
Research collaborator on self-body perception and affordance in Augmented Reality.

Nathalie Le Bigot
Associate Professor in Cognitive Psychology
Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO)
Lab-STICC