Short- and long-term effects of embodied experiences in immersive virtual environments on environmental locus of control and behavior

Ahn, Sun Joo; Bailenson, Jeremy N.; Park, Dooyeon

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2014.07.025

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“…Another point of extension from Experiment 1 is exploring the change in the effects of embodied experiences in IVEs over time. Earlier work suggests that the effects of sensory‐rich virtual experiences persist longer over time than the effects of traditional media (Ahn, , in press; Ahn et al, ). Because we lack sufficient evidence to formulate hypotheses, we ask the following research questions to investigate the persistence of the parallel mediation model over time.…”

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Experiencing Nature: Embodying Animals in Immersive Virtual Environments Increases Inclusion of Nature in Self and Involvement With Nature

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Bostick

Ogle

et al. 2016

J Comput-Mediat Comm

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Experiencing Nature: Embodying Animals in Immersive Virtual Environments Increases Inclusion of Nature in Self and Involvement With Nature

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“…Participants who interacted with the simulation were more aware of emergency preparedness compared to those who saw a slideshow on flooding. Furthermore, in an forthcoming rendition of this work (Ahn, Bailenson, & Park, 2014), the interactive experience of cutting down a tree in a VE led participants to consume 20% less paper compared to those who merely read about cutting down a tree. Thus, having a high level of control and feedback while either cutting or growing a tree in the VE is likely to amplify framing effects on environmental behaviors.…”

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“…VEs yield potential advantages over traditional frames, particularly in the context of gain and loss frames aiming to modify behaviors. One such advantage is that virtual experiences are more persuasive than messages in print or video presenting comparable amounts of information (Ahn et al, 2013(Ahn et al, , 2014, most likely due to VEs' unique affordances such as simulated sensory information and high interactivity. These affordances seemed to result in the persistent salience of virtual experiences in the mind as vivid experiences, implying that classical stipulations of framing theories, although still applicable, become amplified in VEs and the effects are sustained over time.…”

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Framing Virtual Experiences

Ahn

Fox

Dale

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Communication Research

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In virtual environments (VEs), users experience visceral simulations that feel like the real world. Virtual experiences are proposed as a novel operationalization of gain and loss framed environmental messages. A 2 (gain vs. loss frame) × 2 (high vs. low interactivity) × 3 (pretest, posttest, delayed posttest) experiment was conducted. Immediately following exposure, virtual experiences promoted environmental behavior by reducing paper consumption by 25% compared to a control group. In addition, the gain framed experience of growing a virtual tree promoted behavioral intentions more effectively than the loss framed experience of cutting down a tree. Response efficacy mediated the relationship between framing and environmental behavioral intentions. One week after exposure, response efficacy heightened as a result of the gain frame. Participants in the high interactivity conditions also reported higher levels of environmental behavior than those in the low interactivity conditions one week following exposure.

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“…Using the described setup, our initial question focused on whether the feeling of touch [Ahn 2011] would make any difference to the quality of interaction experienced by the participants [Bailenson et al 2007] [Haans and Usselsteijn 2009]. …”

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Persuading people in a remote destination to sing by beaming there

Bourdin

Sanahuja

Moya

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

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We built a Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE) allowing one person, the 'visitor' to be digitally transported to a remote destination to interact with local people there. This included full body tracking, vibrotactile feedback and voice. This allowed interactions in the same CVE between multiple people situated in different physical remote locations. This system was used for an experiment to study whether the conveyance of touch has an impact on the willingness of participants embodied in the CVE to sing in public. In a first experimental condition, the experimenter virtually touched the avatar of the participants on the shoulder, producing vibrotactile feedback. In another condition using the identical physical setup, the vibrotactile displays were not activated, so that they would not feel the touch. Our hypothesis was that the tactile touch condition would produce a greater likelihood of compliance with the request to sing. In a second part we examined the hypothesis that people might be more willing to sing (execute an embarrassing task) in a CVE, because of the anonymity provided by virtual reality. Hence we carried out a similar study in physical reality. The results suggest that the tactile intervention had no effect on the sensations of body ownership, presence or the behaviours of the participants, in spite of the finding that the sensation of touch itself was effectively realised. Moreover we found an overall similarity in responses between the VR and real conditions.

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Short- and long-term effects of embodied experiences in immersive virtual environments on environmental locus of control and behavior

Cited by 221 publications

References 48 publications

Experiencing Nature: Embodying Animals in Immersive Virtual Environments Increases Inclusion of Nature in Self and Involvement With Nature

Experiencing Nature: Embodying Animals in Immersive Virtual Environments Increases Inclusion of Nature in Self and Involvement With Nature

Framing Virtual Experiences

Persuading people in a remote destination to sing by beaming there

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