Selective Attention

Bater, Lovina R.; Jordan, Sara S.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_1904

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“…At the occupational level, stress impacts workers' health, performance, and wellbeing (Sesboüé and Guincestre, 2006;Fink, 2016). It can lead to depressive symptoms (Fink, 2007), burnout symptoms (Shields et al, 2016), hypertension (LeBlanc, 2009, and/or type 2 diabetes mellitus (Bater and Jordan, 2020). Stressors can therefore impact VR adoption as they affect task completion novelty and the spectrum of tasks' typology.…”

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Design guidelines for limiting and eliminating virtual reality-induced symptoms and effects at work: a comprehensive, factor-oriented review

et al. 2023

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Virtual reality (VR) can induce side effects known as virtual reality-induced symptoms and effects (VRISE). To address this concern, we identify a literature-based listing of these factors thought to influence VRISE with a focus on office work use. Using those, we recommend guidelines for VRISE amelioration intended for virtual environment creators and users. We identify five VRISE risks, focusing on short-term symptoms with their short-term effects. Three overall factor categories are considered: individual, hardware, and software. Over 90 factors may influence VRISE frequency and severity. We identify guidelines for each factor to help reduce VR side effects. To better reflect our confidence in those guidelines, we graded each with a level of evidence rating. Common factors occasionally influence different forms of VRISE. This can lead to confusion in the literature. General guidelines for using VR at work involve worker adaptation, such as limiting immersion times to between 20 and 30 min. These regimens involve taking regular breaks. Extra care is required for workers with special needs, neurodiversity, and gerontechnological concerns. In addition to following our guidelines, stakeholders should be aware that current head-mounted displays and virtual environments can continue to induce VRISE. While no single existing method fully alleviates VRISE, workers' health and safety must be monitored and safeguarded when VR is used at work.

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Design guidelines for limiting and eliminating virtual reality-induced symptoms and effects at work: a comprehensive, factor-oriented review

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“…Acute stress, in general, can impair executive functions (Shields et al 2016). According to LeBlanc (2009), stress reduces selective attention (Lee and Choo 2013;Bater and Jordan 2020), impairs working memory, enhances memory consolidation (Roesler and McGaugh 2019), and impairs memory recall/retrieval (Staresina and Wimber 2019;Klier et al 2020). Therefore, we can infer that stress could impair work performance when fulfilling tasks in VR depending on task typologies.…”

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A narrative review of immersive virtual reality’s ergonomics and risks at the workplace: cybersickness, visual fatigue, muscular fatigue, acute stress, and mental overload

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This narrative review synthesizes and introduces 386 previous works about virtual reality-induced symptoms and effects by focusing on cybersickness, visual fatigue, muscle fatigue, acute stress, and mental overload. Usually, these VRISE are treated independently in the literature, although virtual reality is increasingly considered an option to replace PCs at the workplace, which encourages us to consider them all at once. We emphasize the context of office-like tasks in VR, gathering 57 articles meeting our inclusion/exclusion criteria. Cybersickness symptoms, influenced by fifty factors, could prevent workers from using VR. It is studied but requires more research to reach a theoretical consensus. VR can lead to more visual fatigue than other screen uses, influenced by fifteen factors, mainly due to vergence-accommodation conflicts. This side effect requires more testing and clarification on how it differs from cybersickness. VR can provoke muscle fatigue and musculoskeletal discomfort, influenced by fifteen factors, depending on tasks and interactions. VR could lead to acute stress due to technostress, task difficulty, time pressure, and public speaking. VR also potentially leads to mental overload, mainly due to task load, time pressure, and intrinsically due interaction and interface of the virtual environment. We propose a research agenda to tackle VR ergonomics and risks issues at the workplace.

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“…It is therefore possible to infer that most adults perform a large part of their daily tasks in the presence of background music (cooking, driving, working, studying, etc.). The efficient accomplishment of these tasks recruits the capacities of selective attention, also referred as attentional control; the cognitive ability to select, among a considerable load of information, relevant stimuli while inhibiting others ( Murphy et al, 2016 ; Bater and Jordan, 2020 ). Due to their front-line role in information processing, selective attention capacities represent the gateway to other executive and memory functions, the latter allowing us to adapt to the demands of daily life ( Cohen, 2011 ; Nobre et al, 2014 ).…”

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The Emotional Effect of Background Music on Selective Attention of Adults

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Daily activities can often be performed while listening to music, which could influence the ability to select relevant stimuli while ignoring distractors. Previous studies have established that the level of arousal of music (e.g., relaxing/stimulating) has the ability to modulate mood and affect the performance of cognitive tasks. The aim of this research was to explore the effect of relaxing and stimulating background music on selective attention. To this aim, 46 healthy adults performed a Stroop-type task in five different sound environments: relaxing music, stimulating music, relaxing music-matched noise, stimulating music-matched noise, and silence. Results showed that response times for incongruent and congruent trials as well as the Stroop interference effect were similar across conditions. Interestingly, results revealed a decreased error rate for congruent trials in the relaxing music condition as compared to the relaxing music-matched noise condition, and a similar tendency between relaxing music and stimulating music-matched noise. Taken together, the absence of difference between background music and silence conditions suggest that they have similar effects on adult’s selective attention capacities, while noise seems to have a detrimental impact, particularly when the task is easier cognitively. In conclusion, the type of sound stimulation in the environment seems to be a factor that can affect cognitive tasks performance.

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Selective Attention

Cited by 5 publications

References 7 publications

Design guidelines for limiting and eliminating virtual reality-induced symptoms and effects at work: a comprehensive, factor-oriented review

Design guidelines for limiting and eliminating virtual reality-induced symptoms and effects at work: a comprehensive, factor-oriented review

A narrative review of immersive virtual reality’s ergonomics and risks at the workplace: cybersickness, visual fatigue, muscular fatigue, acute stress, and mental overload

The Emotional Effect of Background Music on Selective Attention of Adults

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