Peter Werkhoven

Utrecht University, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research

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Peter Werkhoven is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of human perception, virtual reality, and human-autonomy interaction. His work fundamentally explores how humans experience and control artificial bodies and intelligent machines. A central contribution is his groundbreaking research on the **Supernumerary Hand Illusion in Augmented Reality**, where he systematically deconstructs the sense of embodiment into its core components—ownership, agency, and self-location. By demonstrating that these subcomponents can be independently manipulated in virtual environments, his work (cited over 24 times) has profound implications for teleoperation and prosthetics. Werkhoven also addresses the critical challenge of **human-autonomy teaming**, investigating how to responsibly instruct intelligent autonomous systems, a topic of increasing relevance in modern AI. His research on embodiment and performance in augmented reality (2021) further explores how operators experience and control extra robotic limbs in high-stakes teleoperations. Through his rigorous experimental approach, Werkhoven has established a foundational framework for understanding how we can seamlessly integrate virtual and robotic extensions of our bodies into our sense of self.