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Construct Summary

The authors define the construct of embodiment as consistenting of three inter-related categories:

“appearance, response, ownership, and multi-sensory.” (p. 1)

Rating = 85%

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✓ Is the construct defined?
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✓ Is the item generation process discussed (e.g., literature review, Delphi method, crowd-sourcing)?
✖ Person to items 10:1 for the initial set of items?
✓ Did they perform an EFA, PCA, Rasch, or similar test to determine the item to factor relationship?
✓ Did they describe how they determined number of factors?
✓ Did they report the full initial set of items?
✓ Did they provide loadings (EFA) or item fits (Rasch) of all items?
✓ Is there a description of the item removal process (e.g., using infit/outfit, factor loading minimum value, or cross-loading values)?
✓ Did they list the final items included in the scale?
✖ Did they include a factor structure test (e.g., second EFA, CFA, DIF, test for unidimensionality when using Rasch, or similar)?
✓ Was a measure of reliability (e.g., Cronbach’s alpha, McDonalds Omega_h or Omega_t, Tarkkonen’s Rho) reported?
✓ Was a test of validity (e.g., predictive, concurrent, convergent, discriminant) reported?

Comments The scale is validated using existing data from previous experiments that used the original measures

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PAPER
Gonzalez-Franco, M., & Peck, T. C. (2018). Avatar embodiment. towards a standardized questionnaire. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 5, 74.


PDF of scale as well as instructions for administration and scoring are not readily available. Check the paper for more details or email hriscaledatabase@gmail.com to submit this information if you are the author of this scale.

Final Scale Items (16 total):

“References in the questionnaire to body would need to be updated if only a body part is being explored. Blank spaces [x] depend on the experiment, and the ones referring to touch (marked with *) can be filled with floor, if there are no further tactile stimuli.”


I felt out of my body.
I felt as if my (real) body were drifting toward the virtual body or as if the virtual body were drifting toward my (real) body.
I felt as if the movements of the virtual body were influencing my own movements.
It felt as if my (real) body were turning into an “avatar” body.
At some point it felt as if my real body was starting to take on the posture or shape of the virtual body that I saw.
I felt like I was wearing different clothes from when I came to the laboratory.
I felt as if my body had changed.
I felt a [x] sensation in my body when I saw [x].
I felt that my own body could be affected by [x].
I felt as if the virtual body was my body.
At some point it felt that the virtual body resembled my own (real) body, in terms of shape, skin tone or other visual features.
I felt as if my body was located where I saw the virtual body.
I felt like I could control the virtual body as if it was my own body.
It seemed as if I felt the touch of the [x] in the location where I saw the virtual body touched.
It seemed as if the touch I felt was caused by the body touching the virtual [x].
It seemed as if my body was touching the [x].