Measuring User Experience on Interactive Fiction in Cinematic Virtual Reality

Beyond virtual cultural tourism: history-living experiences with cinematic virtual reality

“…Research on cVR has addressed the need to establish an appropriate grammar for narration with this medium (e.g., Dooley, 2017;Mateer, 2017;Gödde et al, 2018) and to assess users' experience (Pillai & Verma, 2019;Reyes, 2018) with an emphasis on their emotional responses (Ding et al, 2018;Shin, 2018). Some studies have noted that cVR is not an extension of filmmaking but a new medium with its own grammar (Mateer, 2017;Jones, 2017).…”

“…Gödde et al 2018have stressed the need to carefully consider the role that the viewers play in the scenes, since their sense of presence is significantly influenced by being only an observer or being part of the scene. Reyes (2018) proposed a methodology for assessing user experience dimensions, including agency (usability, autonomy, effectance), immersion, and transformation aspects (enjoyment, affect, desire to repeat the experience) and the level of physical discomfort. In her study, the evaluation of immersion includes both the perceptual immersion (realism of the virtual environment, presence, flow) and narrative immersion (understanding of the story, believability, role identification, curiosity and suspense, aesthetic pleasantness).…”

“…Cinematic VR (cVR) identifies experiences delivered through a VR device with "media fidelity approaches found in feature film" (Mateer, 2017, p. 15). While an established definition is still lacking due to the infancy of the medium (Kubitzek, 2019), it refers to a type of experience that immerses users into a narrative unfolding in a linear way (as in traditional movies) within a 360-degree environment (Reyes, 2018). cVR contents can include live action captured by a video camera system as well as computer generated imagery (CGI), created with filmmaking techniques.…”

The Effects of Cinematic Virtual Reality on Viewing Experience and the Recollection of Narrative Elements

“…Other recent studies, including those of Bala, Dionisio, Nisi, and Nunes (2016), Bala, Nisi, and Nunes (2017), and Reyes (2018) provide strategies for telling and evaluating interactive immersive stories in virtual reality. Interactivity is assessed based on agency, decision making, and engagement with the fictional space and narrative events (Roth & Koenitz, 2016).…”

“…Interactivity is assessed based on agency, decision making, and engagement with the fictional space and narrative events (Roth & Koenitz, 2016). Correspondingly, Reyes (2018) proposes that cinematic virtual reality experiences are defined by the combination of cinematic storytelling, spatial cues, like sound effects, as well as cognitive and biological effects, such as the sensation of presence, attention, or even physical discomfort.…”