Prosthetic embodiment: systematic review on definitions, measures, and experimental paradigms.

ABSTRACT: The term embodiment has become omnipresent within prosthetics research and is often used as a metric of the progress made in prosthetic technologies, as well as a hallmark for user acceptance. However, despite the frequent use of the term, the concept of prosthetic embodiment is often left undefined or described incongruently, sometimes even within the same article. This terminological ambiguity complicates the comparison of studies using embodiment as a metric of success, which in turn hinders the advancement of prosthetics research. To resolve these terminological ambiguities, we systematically reviewed the used definitions of embodiment in the prosthetics literature. We performed a thematic analysis of the definitions and found that embodiment is often conceptualized in either of two fr

SUBMITTER: Zbinden J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8962549 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature