Enacting Virtual Reality: The Philosophy and Cognitive Science of Optimal Virtual Experience

Hovhannisyan, Garri; Henson, Anna; Sood, Suraj

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“…Spiritual -People seek enlightenment, wisdom, and contact with the divine or supernatural via practices such as meditation and prayer. 6 21. Humanistic -People are creative, spontaneous, and active beings who contribute to the furthering of humanity.…”

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“…agreement between affects, consists in either total liking or total disliking. Behavioral consonance can be defined simply as being in flow, totally immersed in an activity [6]. Motivational consonance may consist of total (un)wanting.…”

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“…Positive psychology recognizes such an immersed state as being one of flow or engagement ("being one with the mu-sic3" when involved in a certain kind of activity). Subjective immersion [6] can be reported on to certain extents of meaningfulness and accuracy. Immersion can be qualified, e.g.…”

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Holarchic HCI and Augmented Psychology (“AugPsy”)

Sood¹

2021

Augmented Cognition

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Consciousness enables experience, and each can be placed on a spectrum [1,14]. Experience is more robust and multidirectional, though the possibility exists for it to be bidirectional (particularly for the geometrician working along a line, but also generally when considering between two given options). Consciousness is synonymous informally with awareness. When one is conscious, they are aware, and vice versa. Awareness can be quantified in terms of being "greater" or "lesser". For example, one may be more aware of certain aspects of experience than others given selective attention.Experience is the basic unit of analysis for phenomenology. While experience may be operationalized as qualia to address "what things are like" [20], the former may also be treated as a formal primitive. Phenomena are events as they appear to or present themselves for conscious perceivers. In ordinary use, experiences are assumed to be significant events or happenings.Phenomenal experience is qualitative. It is characterized as such by description through adjectives (e.g., "good" or "bad"). Experiences can be categorized into types, e.g. into the learning kind (as in the "learning experience"). If an experience is rich, then it has richness that may be qualified-described further in terms of what makes it so-or quantified. Growth may result from the victorious experience. This is so in battle-based role playing games (RPGs), where successfully defeating one's opponent earns experience points that contribute to the possible level-up of one or more of the player's team members (as in Pokémon and Fire Emblem, two of the most popular Japanese action-adventure RPG series).It is posited that the self, after being immersed in something greater than it, has potential to emerge greater than it was prior [2,3]. Positive psychology recognizes such an immersed state as being one of flow or engagement. Subjective immersion [6] can be reported on to certain extents of meaningfulness and accuracy. Immersion can be qualified, e.g. via description of an activity's meaning to the human actor, or perhaps quantified. Perhaps the optimal flow experience is only quantifiable as being infinitely enjoyable, enriching, engaging, and/or meaningful, among other possible measures.1 Augmented psychology was argued for in [11] with the proposal of augmented mind, including augmented cognition, affect, and conation. AugPsy may also include augmented body [66], consisting of the deviceattaching human and their technologically extended self [67]. The AugPsy program propounded in this chapter is to be distinguished from Augmented Psychology as the psychological intervention using metaphorical experiences in virtual reality (VR), conceived on the basis of hypothesized "last frontiers" of neuroscientific research [71].

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Augmented Cognition

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“…At last, recent work by Hovhannisyan et al [17] elaborate on the offboarding process of VR experiences. Opposed to onboarding of an application, offboarding refers to the process of users who want to cancel a subscription of a provider or remove their account, for example, from social networks.…”

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“…Furthermore, giving presenters the ability to initiate transitions could be perceived as a loss of control for VR users. Similar to the offboarding concept [17] of virtual experiences, that takes place during and after the VR users take off their HMDs, transitions before this step will influence the overall experience of the audience.…”

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Back to reality: transition techniques from short HMD-based virtual experiences to the physical world

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Multimed Tools Appl

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Every Virtual Reality (VR) experience has to end at some point. While there already exist concepts to design transitions for users to enter a virtual world, their return from the physical world should be considered, as well, as it is a part of the overall VR experience. We call the latter outro-transitions. In contrast to offboarding of VR experiences, that takes place after taking off VR hardware (e.g., HMDs), outro-transitions are still part of the immersive experience. Such transitions occur more frequently when VR is experienced periodically and for only short times. One example where transition techniques are necessary is in an auditorium where the audience has individual VR headsets available, for example, in a presentation using PowerPoint slides together with brief VR experiences sprinkled between the slides. The audience must put on and take off HMDs frequently every time they switch from common presentation media to VR and back. In a such a one-to-many VR scenario, it is challenging for presenters to explore the process of multiple people coming back from the virtual to the physical world at once. Direct communication may be constrained while VR users are wearing an HMD. Presenters need a tool to indicate them to stop the VR session and switch back to the slide presentation. Virtual visual cues can help presenters or other external entities (e.g., automated/scripted events) to request VR users to end a VR session. Such transitions become part of the overall experience of the audience and thus must be considered. This paper explores visual cues as outro-transitions from a virtual world back to the physical world and their utility to enable presenters to request VR users to end a VR session. We propose and investigate eight transition techniques. We focus on their usage in short consecutive VR experiences and include both established and novel techniques. The transition techniques are evaluated within a user study to draw conclusions on the effects of outro-transitions on the overall experience and presence of participants. We also take into account how long an outro-transition may take and how comfortable our participants perceived the proposed techniques. The study points out that they preferred non-interactive outro-transitions over interactive ones, except for a transition that allowed VR users to communicate with presenters. Furthermore, we explore the presenter-VR user relation within a presentation scenario that uses short VR experiences. The study indicates involving presenters that can stop a VR session was not only negligible but preferred by our participants.

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The Platonic-Freudian Model of Mind: Defining “Self” and “Other” as Psychoinformatic Primitives

Sood¹

2020

Augmented Cognition. Theoretical and Technological Approaches

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As "nurtural" (rather than merely natural) kinds of human beings, people are complex and multifaceted. Any complete human science would require a complete theory of persons. Accomplishing the latter is the core objective of the present article. First, a feature list first laid out in [1] is summarized. This list is briefly critiqued. Next, the concept of person engaged with is expanded with the addition of nine novel features. These features follow from "holarchic psychoinformatics" [2], which was first propounded as a step forward from Sood's analytic treatment of third-force, existential-humanistic psychology. Person is formalized as a function of self and other; they are also granted to be romantic, existential, humanistic, chemical, environmental, hedonic and eudaimonic (happiness-seeking), conservative, and liberal. These are in addition to persons being physical, biological, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual. Sood's holarchic view of persons is enlarged. Psychologically, augmented cognition as an established field of research and practice begets the formal studies of augmented affect, augmented behavior, and augmented motivation. All such interdisciplinary fields are required for the human-computer interactionist's study of augmented mind, more broadly. Additionally, this article builds on the person-situation interaction framework formalized in [1]. It does so by adding a formalization following from the discussion of psychological situations put forward by Rauthmann, Sherman, and Funder in [3]. The formalization of psychological situations sets them as a function of cues, characteristics, and classes. Further psychological equations that follow from this article's formalisms of person and situation, when considered along with Sood's formulae for mind and behavior, are then presented.

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Enacting Virtual Reality: The Philosophy and Cognitive Science of Optimal Virtual Experience

Cited by 8 publications

References 26 publications

Holarchic HCI and Augmented Psychology (“AugPsy”)

Holarchic HCI and Augmented Psychology (“AugPsy”)

Back to reality: transition techniques from short HMD-based virtual experiences to the physical world

The Platonic-Freudian Model of Mind: Defining “Self” and “Other” as Psychoinformatic Primitives

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