The Immersive Virtual Environment of the digital fulldome: Considerations of relevant psychological processes

Schnall, Simone; Hedge, Craig; Weaver, Ruth

doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2012.04.001

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“…A review of literature relevant to immersive display evaluation was completed by Schnall et al in their investigation of fulldomes, the immersive dome-based projection displays most known for their use in planetariums [34]. With a focus on the educational benefits of fulldome displays, their review included research on immersion, presence, attention, memory and social factors.…”

Section: Evaluating Passive Experiences In Immersive Displaysmentioning

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Cinematic virtual reality: Evaluating the effect of display type on the viewing experience for panoramic video

MacQuarrie

Steed

2017

2017 IEEE Virtual Reality (VR)

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The proliferation of head-mounted displays (HMD) in the market means that cinematic virtual reality (CVR) is an increasingly popular format. We explore several metrics that may indicate advantages and disadvantages of CVR compared to traditional viewing formats such as TV. We explored the consumption of panoramic videos in three different display systems: a HMD, a SurroundVideo+ (SV+), and a standard 16:9 TV. The SV+ display features a TV with projected peripheral content. A between-groups experiment of 63 participants was conducted, in which participants watched panoramic videos in one of these three display conditions. Aspects examined in the experiment were spatial awareness, narrative engagement, enjoyment, memory, fear, attention, and a viewer's concern about missing something. Our results indicated that the HMD offered a significant benefit in terms of enjoyment and spatial awareness, and our SV+ display offered a significant improvement in enjoyment over traditional TV. We were unable to confirm the work of a previous study that showed incidental memory may be lower in a HMD over a TV. Drawing attention and a viewer's concern about missing something were also not significantly different between display conditions. It is clear that passive media viewing consists of a complex interplay of factors, such as the media itself, the characteristics of the display, as well as human aspects including perception and attention. While passive media viewing presents many challenges for evaluation, identifying a number of broadly applicable metrics will aid our understanding of these experiences, and allow the creation of better, more engaging CVR content and displays.

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Section: Evaluating Passive Experiences In Immersive Displaysmentioning

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Cinematic virtual reality: Evaluating the effect of display type on the viewing experience for panoramic video

MacQuarrie

Steed

2017

2017 IEEE Virtual Reality (VR)

114

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“…For interactive digital tasks, the degree of immersion is determined by variables related to sensory experience, such as increasing screen size, sound quality, graphical fidelity or adding 3D display capabilities. There is some evidence that sensory immersion (Ermi and Mayra, 2005) is driven by audiovisual properties of gaming hardware; for example, increased screen size has been associated with greater immersion across a number of studies using desktop displays (Hou et al, 2012;Wu et al, 2011;van den Hoogen et al, 2009), touchscreen systems (Thompson et al, 2012) and head-mounted displays (Tyndiuk et al, 2004;Bowman & McMahan, 2007;Schnall, Hedge & Weaver, 2012). Alternatively, the degree of immersion may be determined by the intrinsic capacity of a task to motivate and engage the cognitive capabilities of the individual.…”

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Use of auditory event-related potentials to measure immersion during a computer game

Burns

Fairclough

2015

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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“…A recent review outlined how the fulldome's unique features relate to the psychology and IVE literature 1 , and suggested avenues for research into their application. Three priorities were highlighted, the first two concern addressing whether an advantage is shown for fulldome environments over standard forms of presentation, and if so, for which tasks.…”

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“…Furthermore, as we reviewed in detail previously 1 , ideally a variety of psychological features of the fulldome should be considered beyond the ones used in the present work. Future work should examine the types of content and learning requirements typically required by fulldome users.…”

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Spatial Learning and Wayfinding in an Immersive Environment: The Digital Fulldome

Hedge

Weaver

Schnall

2017

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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Previous work has examined whether immersive technologies can benefit learning in virtual environments, but the potential benefits of technology in this context is confounded by individual differences such as spatial ability. We assessed spatial knowledge acquisition in male and female participants using a technology not previously examined empirically: the digital fulldome. Our primary aim was to examine whether performance on a test of survey knowledge was better in a fulldome (N=28, 12 male) relative to a large, flat screen display (N=27, 13 male). Regression analysis showed that, compared to a flat screen display, males showed higher levels of performance on a test of survey knowledge after learning in the fulldome, but no benefit occurred for females. Furthermore, performance correlated with spatial visualisation ability in male participants, but not in female participants. Thus, the digital fulldome is a potentially useful learning aid, capable of accommodating multiple users, but individual differences and use of strategy need to be considered. planetariums. This provides a seamless wrap-around display for large scale digital projection.A recent review outlined how the fulldome's unique features relate to the psychology and IVE literature 1 , and suggested avenues for research into their application. Three priorities were highlighted, the first two concern addressing whether an advantage is shown for fulldome environments over standard forms of presentation, and if so, for which tasks. The third priority concerns individual differences that may moderate learning in a fulldome environment. Here, we begin to address these with an empirical study examining whether the benefits found in other IVEs can also be observed for a spatial learning task, while taking into account gender and spatial ability. Spatial learning in virtual environmentsSpatial learning has been a prominent focus in IVE and computer display research, with visual immersion being a primary focus for many IVEs 2-7 . Research in to spatial learning has been prominently influenced by a model formulated by Siegel and White 8 , which identifies three components of spatial knowledge: landmark knowledge, which concerns key points in the environment, route knowledge, which concerns the transition between two or more locations in the environment and survey knowledge, which concerns abstracted knowledge of the overall layout of an environment, typically contained in the form of a map.It was originally suggested that these three components reflected the development of spatial knowledge, and that the individual begins by learning landmarks and their associations in a list-like manner, and, with experience, develop a richer, allocentric map of the environment. SPATIAL LEARNING IN A DIGITAL FULLDOME 4However, the time scale of this progression is unclear, and further work has shown that some individuals acquire survey knowledge with minimal exposure 9 .The utility of IVEs in spatial learning relies on identifying the ways in which features of the e...

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The Immersive Virtual Environment of the digital fulldome: Considerations of relevant psychological processes

Cited by 42 publications

References 120 publications

Cinematic virtual reality: Evaluating the effect of display type on the viewing experience for panoramic video

Cinematic virtual reality: Evaluating the effect of display type on the viewing experience for panoramic video

Use of auditory event-related potentials to measure immersion during a computer game

Spatial Learning and Wayfinding in an Immersive Environment: The Digital Fulldome

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