Bruno Herbelin

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bruno.herbelin@epfl.ch +41 21 693 04 67

Citizenship: French

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4570-5146

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Fields of expertise

Virtual Reality and cognitive neuroscience

Short Bio

Bruno Herbelin is senior researcher in virtual reality and cognitive neuroscience in the laboratory of Prof. O. Blanke at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne since 2009 (EPFL, Switzerland). From 2012 to 2019, he was deputy director of the EPFL Center for Neuroprosthetics. From 2005 to 2009, he was Assistant Professor at Medialogy Department of Aalborg University, Denmark. He obtained his PhD from EPFL School of Computer and Communications in 2005 for his research work on virtual reality exposure therapy under the supervision of Prof. D. Thallmann (Virtual Reality Laboratory).

Developments

ExpyVR - Framework for designing and conducting Experiments in Virtual-Reality.
http://lnco.epfl.ch/expyvr

vimix - Graphic Live Video Mixing software for visual art performance.
https://brunoherbelin.github.io/vimix/

Biography

Since 10/09 - Scientist
Laboratory of cognitive neuroscience
Brain & Mind Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

06/12 - 10/19 Deputy Director
Center for Neuroprosthetics
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

11/05 - 09/09 Assistant Professor
Aalborg University
Esbjerg Institute of Technology & Copenhagen Institute of Technology, Denmark.

07/01 - 09/05 Research assistant PhD student
Virtual Reality Laboratory
School of Computer and Communications, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Education

Dr.Sc. (Ph.D.)

Computer graphics and virtual reality

EPFL, CS department, VRLab, Lausanne, CH.

Nov 2005

DEA (M.Sc.)

Computer sciences and artificial intelligence.

Louis Pasteur University, LSIIT, Strasbourg, FR.

2000

Engineer (M.Sc.)

Computer science, software and knowledge engineering

UTBM, CS department, Belfort-Montbeliard, FR.

1997

Publications

Infoscience publications

Infoscience

2024

In case of doubt, one follows one's self: the implicit guidance of the embodied self-avatar

L. Boban; R. Boulic; B. Herbelin

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2024. DOI : 10.1109/TVCG.2024.3372042.

Bruno Herbelin

Scientist

Fields of expertise

Short Bio

Developments

Biography

Education

Publications

Infoscience publications

Infoscience

2024

In case of doubt, one follows one's self: the implicit guidance of the embodied self-avatar

Numerosity estimation of virtual humans as a digital-robotic marker for hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease

Customizing the human-avatar mapping based on EEG error related potentials during avatar-based interaction.

2023

From finger animation to full-body embodiment of avatars with different morphologies and proportions

Real-time Self-contact Retargeting of Avatars down to Finger Level

Avatar error in your favor: Embodied avatars can fix users’ mistakes without them noticing

Unintentional synchronization with self-avatar for upper- and lower-body movements

The full-body illusion changes visual depth perception

Out-of-body illusion induced by visual-vestibular stimulation

Virtual reality intervention alleviates dyspnoea in patients recovering from COVID-19 pneumonia

EEG signature of breaks in embodiment in VR

2022

Reaching articular limits can negatively impact embodiment in virtual reality

Changing Finger Movement Perception: Influence of Active Haptics on Visual Dominance

Rituals of art and science to decompart(mentalize) knowledge

2021

Adapting Virtual Embodiment through Reinforcement Learning

Application of virtual reality in neurosurgery: Patient missing. A systematic review

Preventing Breaks in Embodiment in Immersive Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality platform for functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Ecologically valid conditions

On the Importance of Providing a Tangible Haptic Response for Training Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Virtual Reality

Interoception and Empathy Impact Perspective Taking

Enhancing analgesic spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain with personalized immersive virtual reality

The perspectives of mapping and monitoring of the sense of self in neurosurgical patients

2020

Method and system for creating an out-of-body experience

Subjective feeling of re‐experiencing past events using immersive virtual reality prevents a loss of episodic memory

Does scaling player size skew one’s ability to correctly evaluate object sizes in a virtual environment?

Mechanisms of the breathing contribution to bodily self‐consciousness in healthy humans: Lessons from machine‐assisted breathing?

Rapid Recalibration of Peri-Personal Space: Psychophysical, Electrophysiological, and Neural Network Modeling Evidence

First-person body view modulates the neural substrates of episodic memory and autonoetic consciousness: A functional connectivity study

2019

Reconciling Being in-Control vs. Being Helped for the Execution of Complex Movements in VR

Virtual reality add-on device for stereotactic neurosurgery

Real-time 360 Body Scanning System for Virtual Reality Research Applications

Real-time neural network prediction for handling two-hands mutual occlusions

First-person view of one’s body in immersive virtual reality: Influence on episodic memory

You or me? Disentangling perspectival, perceptual, and integrative mechanisms in heterotopagnosia

Multisensory bionic limb to achieve prosthesis embodiment and reduce distorted phantom limb perceptions

2018

Self-attribution of distorted reaching movements in immersive virtual reality

Social perception of others shapes one's own multisensory peripersonal space

Modulation of vection latencies in the full-body illusion

Cardio-visual full body illusion alters bodily self-consciousness and tactile processing in somatosensory cortex

Insula mediates heartbeat related effects on visual consciousness

The Critical Role of Self-Contact for Embodiment in Virtual Reality

The Feeling of Me Feeling for You: Interoception, Alexithymia and Empathy in Autism

Peripersonal Space: An Index of Multisensory Body–Environment Interactions in Real, Virtual, and Mixed Realities

Heartbeat-enhanced immersive virtual reality to treat complex regional pain syndrome

2017

Embodiment Sensitivity to Movement Distortion and Perspective Taking in Virtual Reality

Characterizing first and third person viewpoints and their alternation for embodied interaction in virtual reality

Interferences between breathing, experimental dyspnoea and bodily self-consciousness

Bilateral Rolandic operculum processing underlying heartbeat awareness reflects changes in bodily self-consciousness

Virtual Zero Gravity Impact on Internal Gravity Model

2016

Visual gravity contributes to subjective first-person perspective

Multisensory effects on somatosensation: a trimodal visuo-vestibular-tactile interaction

Conceptual processing is referenced to the experienced location of the self, not to the location of the physical body

Neural Mechanisms of Bodily Self-Consciousness and the Experience of Presence in Virtual Reality

The Insula Mediates Access to Awareness of Visual Stimuli Presented Synchronously to the Heartbeat

2015

Balancing awareness: Vestibular signals modulate visual consciousness in the absence of awareness

Characterizing Embodied Interaction in First and Third Person Perspective Viewpoints

Embodied interaction using non-planar projections in immersive virtual reality

Right insular damage decreases heartbeat awareness and alters cardio-visual effects on bodily self-consciousness

Oscillatory neural responses evoked by natural vestibular stimuli in humans

Tuning of temporo-occipital activity by frontal oscillations during virtual mirror exposure causes erroneous self-recognition