The Augmented Hand Series is real-time mirror-vision installation (software system) that adds, removes and alters the length of the digits on you hand, in addition to a range of more playful modifications and exaggerations.
It brings to mind the variations of the rubber-hand illusion experiments, originally performed by Botvinick & Cohen (1998), where one arm is hidden from view (or not there at all as is the case with amputees), and a fake rubber hand is placed in its stead. The body schemata of the hidden/missing hand is activated by touching the rubber hand. Similar experiments were done by mirroring the hand. Botvinick & Cohen calls this a a three-way interaction between vision, touch, and proprioception, where the felt position of the hand is altered by the vision-touch correlation.

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The rubber-hand experiments have also been done with amputees – see V.S Ramachandran research and work on mirror-vision experiments to address various phantom sensations.