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Body Image and Anti-Fat Attitudes: An Experimental Study Using a Haptic Virtual Reality Environment to Replicate

Line Tremblay¹, Mélina Roy-Vaillancourt¹, Brahim Chebbi²

¹1 Department of Psychology, School of Human Kinetics, Laurentian University , Sudbury, Canada .

Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking

|January 8, 2016

Summary

Virtual reality touch offers a new way to measure anti-fat attitudes. Study findings show virtual touch interactions vary based on virtual human characteristics, mirroring real-world social responses.

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Area of Science:

Psychology
Human-Computer Interaction
Virtual Reality

Background:

Anti-fat attitudes significantly impact social interactions with overweight individuals.
Traditional self-report measures for assessing these attitudes present inherent challenges.
Exploring novel methods to objectively quantify social attitudes is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the utility of haptic virtual reality (VR) for measuring anti-fat attitudes.
To test if virtual touch interactions (duration, strength) with virtual humans (VH) reflect real-world attitudinal responses.
To examine the influence of VH characteristics (sex, body size) and participant sex on virtual touch behaviors.

Main Methods:

61 participants engaged in a virtual hug with female or male VH of normal or overweight status within a haptic VR environment.
Data collected included virtual touch duration and strength.
Statistical analyses examined associations between participant characteristics, VH attributes, and virtual touch responses.

Main Results:

Significant associations were found between body image satisfaction, anti-fat attitudes, and sex differences.
A significant interaction effect was observed involving participant sex, VH sex, and VH body size.
Female participants showed longer hugs for overweight female VH compared to overweight male VH; male participants hugged normal-weight VH longer than overweight VH.

Conclusions:

Haptic virtual reality provides a promising, objective method for measuring attitudes, emotions, and social interactions.
Virtual touch interactions can reveal subtle biases and social dynamics related to body weight.
This technology holds potential for developing more effective interventions for weight stigma.