Michiteru Kitazaki is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, and principal investigator of the Visual Psychophysics Laboratory since 2000. His research combines perceptual psychology and virtual reality to investigate human perception and action, to elucidate cognitive mechanisms for empathy with non-human agents, and to design future bodies with appropriate ownership, high effectiveness, and novel experiences in virtual and real environments using virtual embodiments.