First Person vs. Third Person Perspective in a Persuasive Virtual Reality Game: How Does Perspective Affect Empathy Orientation?

Kambe, Asha; Nakajima, Tatsuo

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-05637-6_23

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“…The perspective-taking experience functioned as a moderator for empathy, which works as a mediator to enhance the students' learning process. Kambe and Nakajima (2022) explore empathic orientation toward the other elicited by VR persuasive games in a study to test whether providing a player with a different point of view could affect empathic behavior. In the experiment, participants first took part in a perspective-taking task with a picture of a person for whom they were required to write a diary.…”

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VR content and its prosocial impact: predictors, moderators, and mediators of media effects. A systematic literature review

Martínez-Cano,

Lachman,

Canet

2023

Front. Commun.

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The main purpose of this paper is to explore the prosocial impact of virtual reality (VR) audiovisual content based on a systematic literature review of empirical research on immersive VR media's potential to elicit prosocial behaviors. The illusion of place, verisimilitude, and virtual corporeality are the main elements that underpin the creation of immersive experiences that can turn the user into an active subject of the narrative, engaging with the audiovisual content and feeling the emotions it elicits. A virtual reality system that can offer these three elements provides the means to transform not only the user's sensation of space and reality, but even the users themselves. The question this paper seeks to answer is whether audiovisual VR content can influence an individual's thoughts and feelings about otherness, thereby eliciting prosocial behaviors rooted in a sense of social justice, equality and fairness. To this end, it presents a systematic literature review in accordance with the guidelines of the PRISMA statement, applying a self-deductive coding system based on the Differential Susceptibility to Media Effects Model. The review identifies trends in research on the prosocial potential of VR content, among which perspective taking stands out as one of the most common strategies. In addition, predictors, moderators, mediators, effects, and their correlations are identified in the research reviewed.

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VR content and its prosocial impact: predictors, moderators, and mediators of media effects. A systematic literature review

Martínez-Cano,

Lachman,

Canet

2023

Front. Commun.

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“…Recent investigations into human-agent interaction in immersive settings highlight VR's role as an empathy-enhancing tool, especially through embodied experiences that allow for perspective-taking of EVAs, thereby fostering prosocial behaviours among users (Paiva et al, 2018;Tassinari et al, 2022). For instance, research has shown that taking the perspective of EVAs can influence human behaviour, with participants behaving more altruistically towards robots when they adopt the help-receiver view (Hang et al, 2022) and can enhance closeness and empathy experiences in VR games (Ho and Ng, 2022;Kambe and Nakajima, 2022). Notably, the perceived agency of other players in immersive environments, whether human-controlled avatars or computer-controlled EVAs, can also influence prosocial decision-making (Wei and Bramwell-Dicks, 2022).…”

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Advancing prosociality in extended reality: systematic review of the use of embodied virtual agents to trigger prosocial behaviour in extended reality

Yousefi,

Crowe,

Hoermann

et al. 2024

Front. Virtual Real.

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Attention has increasingly been focused on the potential of Extended Reality (XR) and Embodied Virtual Agents (EVAs) to significantly influence human behaviour. While an expanding body of literature explores the individual impacts of XR and EVAs, there is a noticeable gap in the literature regarding their combined influence on eliciting prosocial behaviour in humans. The purpose of this systematic review is to explore this intersection, offering insights into their multifaceted effects on human prosocial behaviour and the implications for future research and development of EVAs in XR. Our systematic review adopted a scoping approach due to the limited number of studies directly focused on EVAs (i.e., autonomously computer-controlled entities). Despite this, we observed the use of various forms of virtual characters (VCs) to elicit prosocial behaviour. An in-depth analysis of 15 selected studies indicates complex patterns in how XR and VCs affect users’ prosocial behaviour and interactions. Our review suggests that there is promising potential for EVAs to promote prosocial behaviour. However, further research is necessary to identify the design and interaction-related attributes that enhance the effectiveness of these technologies, particularly for socially interactive EVAs in XR environments.

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“…In particular, VR combines high realism and excellent experimental control 28 , so that the stimuli presented to the users can be manipulated or distorted in a perfectly controlled manner in order to suit speci c objectives 29 . A straightforward example of such manipulations is the ability to display a different perspective or viewpoint on the visual scene [30][31][32][33] . Because it 'breaks the laws of optics and physics', this type of manipulation would obviously not be possible using real-world settings.…”

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Perceptual Training in Ice Hockey: Bridging the Eyes-Puck Gap using Virtual Reality

Bloechle,

Audiffren,

Sauthier

et al. 2024

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Background Some cognitive and perceptual determinants of sports performance can be arduous to train using conventional methods. In ice-hockey, this is the case for the players’ ability to identify the Largest Exposed Area, i.e., the goal area that is the least covered by the goaltender from a puck’s perspective. We developed a Virtual Reality (VR) application to quantify and train the players’ ability to identify the Largest Exposed Area from a wide range of shooting positions. Thirty-four professional ice-hockey players were tested. Between two test sessions, half of the players followed a specific feedback-based training (Feedback group), whereas the other players practiced without feedback (Control group). Results For the players of the Feedback group, performance was significantly better after training, whereas it remained unaltered for the players of the Control group. For both groups, performance decreased as the amplitude of the Eyes-Puck difference (i.e., the difference of perspective between the eyes and the puck) increased. This relationship vanished after training for the Feedback group but not for the Control group. Conclusions We took advantage of VR technology to assess and train the perceptual ability to identify the Largest Exposed Area from a puck’s perspective, which would be difficult using traditional methods. Only 15 minutes of specific feedback-based training significantly and substantially improved the performance of professional ice-hockey players, thereby evidencing the efficacy of our training application.

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First Person vs. Third Person Perspective in a Persuasive Virtual Reality Game: How Does Perspective Affect Empathy Orientation?

Cited by 6 publications

References 25 publications

VR content and its prosocial impact: predictors, moderators, and mediators of media effects. A systematic literature review

VR content and its prosocial impact: predictors, moderators, and mediators of media effects. A systematic literature review

Advancing prosociality in extended reality: systematic review of the use of embodied virtual agents to trigger prosocial behaviour in extended reality

Perceptual Training in Ice Hockey: Bridging the Eyes-Puck Gap using Virtual Reality

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