Designing Immersive Virtual Environments for Human Behavior Research

Neo, Jun Rong Jeffrey; Won, Andrea Stevenson; Shepley, Mardelle McCuskey

doi:10.3389/frvir.2021.603750

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“…Interactive VR mock-ups allow the participant to move around within the VR environment while also being able to manipulate and interact with the virtual world. These are also referred to as fully immersive virtual environments [ 10 , 11 ]. The latter is achieved through the use of a head-mounted display, where participants wear a visual display on their head and over their eyes [ 11 , 12 ].…”

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“…These are also referred to as fully immersive virtual environments [ 10 , 11 ]. The latter is achieved through the use of a head-mounted display, where participants wear a visual display on their head and over their eyes [ 11 , 12 ]. A head-tracking device allows continuous updates to be provided on the visual display based on the location and orientation of the user’s head and hands as they interact with the virtual environment.…”

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Using Virtual Reality (VR) Mock-Ups for Evidence-Based Healthcare Facility Design Decisions

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2021

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(1) Background: There are many complexities and trade-offs that design teams consider when designing or renovating a built environment for healthcare. Virtual reality (VR) mock-ups can allow design teams to evaluate the planned design. This study aimed to examine the overall value of using VR mock-ups to conduct a simulation-based mock-up evaluation. (2) Methods: Data collected from scenario enactments within a VR mock-up was compared to data collected from an existing medication room with the same design to assess predictive validity. Outcomes regarding quality and patient safety were also examined as a result of design modifications to the VR mock-up which were identified through a post-occupancy evaluation (POE) of the existing medication room. Survey data from participants, hospital design stakeholders, and POE recommendation recipients captured perceptions regarding the evaluation process. Specifically, this included perceptions regarding mock-up and scenario realism as well as utility of the evaluation process. (3) Results: Evidence-based data collected using the VR mock-up accurately assessed workflow (link analysis), bumps, impediments, interruptions, and task completion times. Collecting data pertaining to selection errors and equipment placement were identified after procuring the VR software and therefore the accuracy of these measures was not assessed. Searching behaviours were not possible to capture using the VR software. A 506% return on investment was achieved through the VR mock-up evaluations. (4) Conclusion: Organizations should consider what evaluation objectives are planned and how they will be measured for a mock-up evaluation to determine if VR is appropriate.

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Using Virtual Reality (VR) Mock-Ups for Evidence-Based Healthcare Facility Design Decisions

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2021

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“…The chromesthesia who can also associate certain feelings when watching the video will experience a slight difference in emotional perception [26]. Therefore, this difference should consider object placement and display media with commensurate and unobtrusive audio [8,27].…”

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Virtual Museum in Chromesthesia Perspective as an Act of Education Sustainability

Kusuma,

Ramdan

2022

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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This study aims to examine chromesthesia in a virtual museum as consideration for exhibition media design in terms of information accuracy. As one of the information resources, museums have several purposes; one of them is educational purposes. In this regard, museums need to provide holistic information to visitors. Furthermore, as an act of archiving and digitizing art, museums are also working on various digitizing processes and present virtual museums; however, this limits virtual museums to provide audio and visual approaches only. This condition makes virtual museums unable to accommodate several visitors' needs, such as those with chromesthesia. Chromesthesia is a neuropsychological phenomenon in which a person can perceive colors through the audio they hear. The case study uses Van Gogh Museum (VGM) virtual tour as a sample of a virtual museum that documents paintings on video with additional audio. The results obtained from this study are differences in color perception of the media and exhibition objects due to the audio elements provided, such as frequency, pitch, and tone. These findings consider providing audio that does not interfere with the color perception match of people with chromesthesia as an act of education sustainability.

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“…These implementations of the pro/con arguments also mentioned in the text format might not have been visually salient enough, or understood. Neo et al (2021) suggest incorporating highly photorealistic textures, e.g., high-resolution images from real products, as one essential VR design strategy. They argue that this is important if participants are expected to pick up objects or to examine them more closely.…”

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Virtual Reality as a Tool for Political Decision-Making? An Empirical Study on the Power of Immersive Images on Voting Behavior

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One of the strengths of virtual reality (VR) is to provide a highly realistic user experience. How would VR's power of realism affect political decision-making, for example, when experienced by citizens before they cast their vote on an issue? We set out to empirically assess if and how voting information presented in VR would influence people's voting behavior, compared to the traditional text presentation format. In a 2 (format: text vs. VR) × 2 (argumentation: pro vs. con) between-subject factorial experiment, we assessed participants' voting behavior on a fictitious popular initiative. We first asked all participants (N = 179) to cast their vote based on a brief text, inspired by the traditional Swiss voting booklet (baseline). We then randomly assigned participants to one of four experimental conditions containing the same pro or con arguments concerning the voting issue. Participants could then adjust their previously-cast vote. This was followed by retrospective interviews (N = 32) to gain deeper insights into the decision-making process of the participants. Our study shows that the presentation format has a reinforcing effect, that is, leading to more YES votes for the VR group, and fewer YES votes for the text group. Irrespective of the pro or con arguments, participants show an overall increase in YES votes in VR, which is not the case for the text group. We identified six factors that may have led to this positive change with VR: (1) the affirmative power of images, (2) the vividness of immersive images, (3) first-person storytelling and storyliving, (4) the greater affordances of VR for engagement through interaction, (5) the design of the VR environment, and (6) the novelty of the VR technology.

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Designing Immersive Virtual Environments for Human Behavior Research

Cited by 34 publications

References 55 publications

Using Virtual Reality (VR) Mock-Ups for Evidence-Based Healthcare Facility Design Decisions

Using Virtual Reality (VR) Mock-Ups for Evidence-Based Healthcare Facility Design Decisions

Virtual Museum in Chromesthesia Perspective as an Act of Education Sustainability

Virtual Reality as a Tool for Political Decision-Making? An Empirical Study on the Power of Immersive Images on Voting Behavior

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