Investigation of the Relation Between Interaction and Sense of Presence in Educational Virtual Environments

Messinis, Ioannis E.; Saltaouras, Dimitrios; Pintelas, Panayiotis E.; Mikropoulos, Tassos A.

doi:10.1109/ic4e.2010.137

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“…The effectiveness of VR applications for both therapy and training strongly relies on the phenomenon of Presence which is known as the feeling of "being here" or to be the moment when "there is successful substitution of real sensory data by virtually generated sensory data" (Slater et al, 2009). Virtual training systems research suggests that Presence achieved through an interactive virtual environment significantly improves learning effectiveness (Messinis et al, 2010). Whilst Presence is achievable without VR, several studies show that VR training systems produce a stronger sense of presence than systems using desktop screens (Shu et al, 2019;Delamarre et al, 2020).…”

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Indifferent or Enthusiastic? Virtual Audiences Animation and Perception in Virtual Reality

Glémarec¹,

Lugrin²,

Bosser³

et al. 2021

Front. Virtual Real.

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In this paper, we present a virtual audience simulation system for Virtual Reality (VR). The system implements an audience perception model controlling the nonverbal behaviors of virtual spectators, such as facial expressions or postures. Groups of virtual spectators are animated by a set of nonverbal behavior rules representing a particular audience attitude (e.g., indifferent or enthusiastic). Each rule specifies a nonverbal behavior category: posture, head movement, facial expression and gaze direction as well as three parameters: type, frequency and proportion. In a first user-study, we asked participants to pretend to be a speaker in VR and then create sets of nonverbal behaviour parameters to simulate different attitudes. Participants manipulated the nonverbal behaviours of single virtual spectator to match a specific levels of engagement and opinion toward them. In a second user-study, we used these parameters to design different types of virtual audiences with our nonverbal behavior rules and evaluated their perceptions. Our results demonstrate our system’s ability to create virtual audiences with three types of different perceived attitudes: indifferent, critical, enthusiastic. The analysis of the results also lead to a set of recommendations and guidelines regarding attitudes and expressions for future design of audiences for VR therapy and training applications.

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Indifferent or Enthusiastic? Virtual Audiences Animation and Perception in Virtual Reality

Glémarec¹,

Lugrin²,

Bosser³

et al. 2021

Front. Virtual Real.

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“…V IRTUAL REALITY (VR) is evolving at a quick pace and being adopted successfully in areas such as education [1], [2], [3], training [4], [5], [6] or entertainment [7], [8]. VR can transport its users to a virtual world where they can interact and perceive the experience as real [9].…”

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Impact of Different Sensory Stimuli on Presence in Credible Virtual Environments

Gonçalves

Melo

Vasconcelos-Raposo

et al. 2020

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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Multiple factors can affect presence in virtual environments, such as the number of human senses engaged in a given experience or the extent to which the virtual experience is credible. The purpose of the present work is to study how the inclusion of credible multisensory stimuli affects the sense of presence, namely, through the use of wind, passive haptics, vibration, and scent. Our sample consisted of 37 participants (27 men and 10 women) whose ages ranged from 17 to 44 years old and were mostly students. The participants were divided randomly into 3 groups: Control Scenario (visual and auditory -N = 12), Passive Haptic Scenario (visual, auditory, and passive haptic -N = 13) and Multisensory Scenario (visual, auditory, wind, passive haptic, vibration, and scent -N = 12). The results indicated a significant increase in the involvement subscale when all multisensory stimuli were delivered. We found a trend where the use of passive haptics by itself has a positive impact on presence, which should be the subject of further work.

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“…To have successful experiences, people can believe that they surely get the abilities. By using VR system for educations, learners can immerse themselves in several simulated situations [26], and the technology can enhance learning effectiveness [27]. Based on the above discussions, in this paper, a learning material with VR system (VR-based learning material) for anti-drug education is proposed.…”

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A VR-based Learning Material for Anti-drug Education: Evaluation from Aspects of Motivation, Satisfaction, and Self-efficacy

Suto

Chen

Huang

2021

IJAE

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Anti-drug education is one of the important and necessary educational activities for young people. In this paper, a virtual reality based (VR-based) material for learning anti-drug skills is proposed. By using the learning material, learners are exposed in a virtual unsafe drug situation, and can feel the dangerousness seriously to learn the harms and risks of drug abuse while improving their abilities to refuse drugs. In order to evaluate the proposed material, it was compared with a video-based learning material which has the same contents with the VR-based learning material. Experiments were conducted and the results were analyzed from the aspects of effect on the users' attitudes, users' satisfaction, and anti-drug self-efficacy. As the result, it became clear that learners can learn effectively with the VR-based learning material more than with the video-based learning material.

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Investigation of the Relation Between Interaction and Sense of Presence in Educational Virtual Environments

Cited by 16 publications

References 21 publications

Indifferent or Enthusiastic? Virtual Audiences Animation and Perception in Virtual Reality

Indifferent or Enthusiastic? Virtual Audiences Animation and Perception in Virtual Reality

Impact of Different Sensory Stimuli on Presence in Credible Virtual Environments

A VR-based Learning Material for Anti-drug Education: Evaluation from Aspects of Motivation, Satisfaction, and Self-efficacy

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