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Interaction with real world environment typically relies on complex experiences of agency, flow, and cognitive immersion. Current research is motivated by the need to approach interaction with virtual environments through haptic displays from such complex experiential perspective. While interaction with haptic displays is grounded in force feedback perception, we propose investigating force feedback perception through the complex experience of agency rather than direct measurement of vibrotactile thresholds. On the basis of the sense agency which is largely dependent on the sensorimotor information, we address the issues of the influence of contextual cues involving virtual stimuli on force feedback perception, and the consistency of perception of this feedback in haptic displays in general. Subsequently, we analyze the relationship between force feedback perception and the experience of interaction with the haptic display as a whole. The results of the present study revealed that the investigated contextual cues did not modify the sense of agency, hence, they had no impact on the force feedback perception; however, the sense of agency varied significantly across identical trials indicating that force feedback perception in haptic displays can be relatively inconsistent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]