Virtual environment cultural training for operational readiness (VECTOR)

Deaton, E.; Barba, Charles A.; Santarelli, Tom; Rosenzweig, Larry; Souders, Vance; McCollum, Chris; Seip, Jason; Knerr, W.; Singer, Jeremiah

doi:10.1007/s10055-004-0145-x

Cited by 37 publications

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“…In others, the place itself is central to the purpose of the application. In the latter group, we find, among others, environments for the negotiation of land management policy (Bishop, 2008), virtual heritage and virtual museums (e.g., Champion, 2008;Sylaiou et al, 2010), training environments where the location is fore-grounded (for example, the military applications reported by Deaton et al (2005)) and an important and growing collection of applications for psychotherapy and the amelioration of phobias. Typical among these are the treatment of low mood (Freeman et al, 2004), acrophobia (e.g., Emmelkamp et al, 2002), fear of flying (e.g., Krijn et al, 2007) and therapeutic environments for military personnel suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (Ready et al, 2010;Yeh et al, 2009).…”

Section: Creating a Sense Of Place In Virtual Realitymentioning

confidence: 93%

Creating a sense of place with a deliberately constrained virtual environment

Turner¹,

Turner²,

Burrows³

2013

IJCPS

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This study explores the premise that a high degree of realism is not a necessary condition for a 'sense of place' in mediated experiences. We report on the usefulness of an intentionally low fidelity virtual environment which relies on the metaphor of the 'tourist gaze' and the power of imagination to create a sense of place. This application was a non-immersive representation of Edinburgh. In evaluation, participants reported experiencing a sense of place rather than a mere collection of images. We discuss the results in the light of weak and strong cognitive representation and indicate potential applications.

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Section: Creating a Sense Of Place In Virtual Realitymentioning

confidence: 93%

Creating a sense of place with a deliberately constrained virtual environment

Turner¹,

Turner²,

Burrows³

2013

IJCPS

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“…There has been recent growth in using virtual experiences to simulate social interactions such as conflict resolution [7], cultural competency [3,1], medical diagnosis [13], and dealing with the mentally ill [6]. Users can benefit greatly from social perspective-taking in these experiences because social perspective-taking aids in resolving conflicts [4], promoting cooperation [9], and reducing bias [16].…”

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confidence: 99%

Virtual Experiences for Social Perspective-Taking

Raij

Kotranza

Lind

et al. 2009

2009 IEEE Virtual Reality Conference

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This paper proposes virtual social perspective-taking (VSP). In VSP, users are immersed in an experience of another person to aid in understanding the person's perspective. Users are immersed by 1) providing input to user senses from logs of the target person's senses, 2) instructing users to act and interact like the target, and 3) reminding users that they are playing the role of the target. These guidelines are applied to a scenario where taking the perspective of others is crucial -the medical interview. A pilot study (n = 16) using this scenario indicates VSP elicits reflection on the perspectives of others and changes behavior in future, similar social interactions. By encouraging reflection and change, VSP advances the state-ofthe-art in training social interactions with virtual experiences.

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“…Few though explicitly separate the culture element from other aspects of behavior and meaning. There are some culture-training systems in which a user learns aspects of a culture by interacting with virtual humans e.g., [15][16][17]. In these systems, the choice of behaviors is important for the flow of the scenario: user choice of an inappropriate action can lead the characters to react badly and ultimately foil success in the simulated mission.…”

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Models of Culture for Virtual Human Conversation

Traum

2009

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. In this paper, we survey different types of Models of culture for virtual humans. Virtual humans are artificial agents that include both a visual human-like body and intelligent cognition driving action of the body. Culture covers a wide range of common knowledge of behavior and communication that can be used in a number of ways including interpreting the meaning of action, establishing identity, expressing meaning, and inference about the performer. We look at several examples of existing cultural models and point out remaining steps for a more full model of culture.

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Virtual environment cultural training for operational readiness (VECTOR)

Cited by 37 publications

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Creating a sense of place with a deliberately constrained virtual environment

Creating a sense of place with a deliberately constrained virtual environment

Virtual Experiences for Social Perspective-Taking

Models of Culture for Virtual Human Conversation

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