How Immersive Is Enough? A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Immersive Technology on User Presence

Cummings, James M.; Bailenson, Jeremy N.

doi:10.1080/15213269.2015.1015740

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“…Whenever possible, de la Peña works with real audio because its power of evocation is much higher than a dramatization in journalistic work. These journalistic examples cause us to question the assumption that in the works with VR, the auditory stimuli are less relevant than other characteristics such as the field of view, tracking level, and stereoscopy mentioned by Cummings and Bailenson (2015).…”

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“…The elements that affect the quality of the immersion in VR have been widely analyzed, debated, and investigated empirically. Most of the efforts have concentrated on emphasizing the technological configurations, as pointed out by Cummings and Bailenson (2015), above other aspects, especially the narrative. Although there seems to be a consensus that the better the quality of the system, the better the sensation of presence, the same authors underline the fact that some characteristics are more important than others.…”

Section: Being Inside the Image Of The News Storymentioning

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Going Beyond the Classic News Narrative Convention: The Background to and Challenges of Immersion in Journalism

Domínguez

2017

Front. Digit. Humanit.

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The disappearance of the screen's physical barrier, the fourth wall, challenges many of the narrative conventions used in the traditional journalistic account. This is an area in which we are still taking the first steps, but these moves have already raised interesting narratological challenges. Technological development allows us not only to have the sensation of being elsewhere but also to interact with the storytelling elements. In this article, the author reviews the steps that have been taken up to the present time in the use of these platforms for news. She revises as well the reflections carried out by disciplines connected with narrative construction on the challenges of this new way of factual storytelling. The implications of being inside the scene of the action and being able to interact with it means rethinking the conventions of audiovisual editing and the visual perspective of the audience, as well as the relevance of the three-dimensional nature of real sound and the freedom to act inside the story without modifying the real course of the events.

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Section: The Visual and Audio Point Of Viewmentioning

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Section: Being Inside the Image Of The News Storymentioning

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Going Beyond the Classic News Narrative Convention: The Background to and Challenges of Immersion in Journalism

Domínguez

2017

Front. Digit. Humanit.

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“…There have been many such studies, referred to in [23] and in the meta study [6]. However, Psi has rarely been studied, yet for many applications the illusion that events in the scenario are really occurring may be critical.…”

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“…In particular here we concentrate on Psi as the major issue of investigation. Research concentrating on eliciting the factors that contribute to presencesummarized in a recent meta study [6] -has concentrated largely on system properties and performance such as latency, rendering framerate and tracking, and most especially on visual characteristics of the VR displays. Here we focus mainly on the quality of auditory rendering, and how different auditory settings contribute to Psi.…”

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The Plausibility of a String Quartet Performance in Virtual Reality

Bergström

Azevedo

Papiotis

et al. 2017

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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-We describe an experiment that explores the contribution of auditory and other features to the illusion of plausibility in a virtual environment that depicts the performance of a string quartet. 'Plausibility' refers to the component of presence that is the illusion that the perceived events in the virtual environment are really happening. The features studied were: Gaze (the musicians ignored the participant, the musicians sometimes looked towards and followed the participant's movements), Sound Spatialization (Mono, Stereo, Spatial), Auralization (no sound reflections, reflections corresponding to a room larger than the one perceived, reflections that exactly matched the virtual room), and Environment (no sound from outside of the room, birdsong and wind corresponding to the outside scene). We adopted the methodology based on color matching theory, where 20 participants were first able to assess their feeling of plausibility in the environment with each of the four features at their highest setting. Then five times participants started from a low setting on all features and were able to make transitions from one system configuration to another until they matched their original feeling of plausibility. From these transitions a Markov transition matrix was constructed, and also probabilities of a match conditional on feature configuration. The results show that Environment and Gaze were individually the most important factors influencing the level of plausibility. The highest probability transitions were to improve Environment and Gaze, and then Auralization and Spatialization. We present this work as both a contribution to the methodology of assessing presence without questionnaires, and showing how various aspects of a musical performance can influence plausibility.

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“…While we have explored authoring the behaviors of populations from a limited number of easy to author action types (See figure 2) [19,16,4], additional research is needed. Cummings et al, who studied immersion and presence through a meta-analysis of previous research [11], discussed different types of presence. They indicate that social presence would be increased through better communication and social actors.…”

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Feeling crowded yet?: crowd simulations for VR

Pelechano

Allbecky

2016

2016 IEEE Virtual Humans and Crowds for Immersive Environments (VHCIE)

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With advances in virtual reality technology and its multiple applications, the need for believable, immersive virtual environments is increasing. Even though current computer graphics methods allow us to develop highly realistic virtual worlds, the main element failing to enhance presence is autonomous groups of human inhabitants. A great number of crowd simulation techniques have emerged in the last decade, but critical details in the crowd's movements and appearance do not meet the standards necessary to convince VR participants that they are present in a real crowd. In this paper, we review recent advances in the creation of immersive virtual crowds and discuss areas that require further work to turn these simulations into more fully immersive and believable experiences.

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How Immersive Is Enough? A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Immersive Technology on User Presence

Cited by 1,114 publications

References 99 publications

Going Beyond the Classic News Narrative Convention: The Background to and Challenges of Immersion in Journalism

Going Beyond the Classic News Narrative Convention: The Background to and Challenges of Immersion in Journalism

The Plausibility of a String Quartet Performance in Virtual Reality

Feeling crowded yet?: crowd simulations for VR

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