Virtual Experience Test: A virtual environment evaluation questionnaire

Abstract

We present the development and evaluation of the Virtual Experience Test (VET). The VET is a survey instrument used to measure holistic virtual environment experiences based upon the five dimensions of experiential design: sensory, cognitive, affective, active, and relational. Experiential Design (ED) is a holistic approach to enhance presence in virtual environments that goes beyond existing presence theory (i.e. a focus on the sensory aspects of VE experiences) to include affective and cognitive factors.To evaluate the VET, 62 participants played the commercial video game Mirror's Edge. After gameplay both the VET and the ITC-Sense of Presence Inventory (ITC-SOPI) were administered. A principal component analysis was performed on the VET and it was determined that the actual question clustering coincided with the proposed dimensions of experiential design. Furthermore, scores from the VET were shown to have a significant relationship with presence scores on the ITC-SOPI. The results of this research produced a validated measure of holistic experience that could be used to evaluate virtual environments. Furthermore, our experiment indicates that virtual environments utilizing holistic designs can result in significantly higher presence.

Designing presence for real locomotion in immersive virtual environments: an affordance-based experiential approach

“…As a consequence, better performances can be achieved (Barfield et al 1995). The enhancement of the sense of presence theorized in Chertoff et al (2008) was experimentally confirmed in the study reported in Chertoff et al (2010).…”

“…Table 1 (middle column) reports the five dimensions of ED applied toward VEs, as illustrated in Chertoff et al (2010). By designing a holistic experience in which all these dimensions are integrated, a user can fill the information not provided by the VE by recalling his previous experience.…”

“…The objective of this paper is to address these guidelines. For this purpose, a framework is proposed, which encompasses both an ecological design based on Gibson's theory of affordances (Gibson 1979), and a holistic design based on experiential design (Pine and Gilmore 2011;Chertoff et al 2008Chertoff et al , 2010.…”

Design of Evaluation Areas Based on Type of Mobile-Based Virtual Reality Training Content

“…For the Media Area, we reviewed previous studies regarding the evaluation of VR media [9,12,[17][18][19][20]. We also broadly reviewed evaluation indices, such as the Igroup Presence Questionnaires (IPQ) [21], Flow State Scale [22], Suitability Evaluation Questionnaire (SEQ) [23], Virtual Experience Test [24], and the User Satisfaction Evaluation Questionnaire (USEQ) [25]. Based on this review, we drew up six evaluation items for the Media Area-Sensory Immersion, Usability, (Media) Satisfaction, Manipulability, Navigability, and Presence.…”

Implementation of Interactive Web 3D Based Virtual Educational System using O3D-WebGL

“…Web based interactive virtual educational environment is an important method that can be used to replace the off-line education. Rapid technological advances are prompting Web contents to make a transition from 2D to 3D in order to enhance satisfaction for the users [1][2][3][4][5]. Recently, research works on Web 3D based e-learning system for healthcare education have also been extensively conducted [6][7][8].…”