Virtual reality: A new method to investigate cognitive load during navigation

Armougum, A.; Orriols, Éric; Gaston-Bellegarde, Alexandre; Marle, Chantal Joie-La; Piolino, Pascale

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.101338

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“…This pattern may indicate the increased task di culty. Measuring physiological functions from EEG and heart rate was previously carried out as an evaluation for the cognitive load (Armougum et al 2019). Meanwhile, the pattern of power output is not able to relate with alpha/beta ratio and heart rate.…”

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Physiological and behavioural responses of modification psychomotor task in the virtual reality on cycling

Zainuddin

Zulkapri

Hasan

et al. 2021

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Road cycling requires cyclists to deal naturally with uncertain environments due to different terrain and responses from competitors. Hence, virtual reality is an alternative tool to provide a safe and competitive environment especially for training and performance during competition. This study intends to evaluate the effects of task difficulty levels in the developed virtual reality on alpha/beta ratio, power output, heart rate, and cadence. The eight cyclists were recruited from National Sport School. The environment of virtual reality is modified from the available virtual reality smart trainer TACX system. The one-way multivariate of variance (MANOVA) identified the effect of 5 different levels of the psychomotor task (independent variables) in the virtual reality on multiple variables of physiological responses. The results from MANOVA revealed a statistically significant multivariate main effect (p < 0.05) for the 5 levels of task difficulty in road cycling when considered jointly on the variables of alpha/beta ratio, power output, heart rate, and cadence; Wilk’s λ = 0.28, F(16,98) = 3.19, partial η2 = 0.27. Alternative nonparametric test for a smaller number of participants also shows there was a statistically significant difference (p < 0.05) between the 5 levels of task difficulty on alpha/beta ratio and cadence. The result of cadence suggested human interaction with the virtual reality specifically during a psychomotor task to road cycling. The significant effects on the joint physiological responses ensure that the evaluation of the experiment from the procedure of developed task difficulty in the virtual reality is practical and applicable. Future studies could consider an involvement of cognitive functions in response to behavioural mechanism.

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Physiological and behavioural responses of modification psychomotor task in the virtual reality on cycling

Zainuddin

Zulkapri

Hasan

et al. 2021

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“…In the XR discourse, human factors research is commonly conducted at the intersection of HCI and cognitive science domains (e.g., [13,29,46,58,98,[135][136][137]). HCI researchers try to improve technology and design by understanding humans better [46,97,138], whereas cognitive science researchers utilize technology to understand humans better [139,140]. At the intersection of these two domains, several HCI questions connected to perceptual and cognitive processing of visuospatial information arise, including:…”

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Extended Reality in Spatial Sciences: A Review of Research Challenges and Future Directions

Çöltekin

Lochhead

Madden

et al. 2020

IJGI

187

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This manuscript identifies and documents unsolved problems and research challenges in the extended reality (XR) domain (i.e., virtual (VR), augmented (AR), and mixed reality (MR)). The manuscript is structured to include technology, design, and human factor perspectives. The text is visualization/display-focused, that is, other modalities such as audio, haptic, smell, and touch, while important for XR, are beyond the scope of this paper. We further narrow our focus to mainly geospatial research, with necessary deviations to other domains where these technologies are widely researched. The main objective of the study is to provide an overview of broader research challenges and directions in XR, especially in spatial sciences. Aside from the research challenges identified based on a comprehensive literature review, we provide case studies with original results from our own studies in each section as examples to demonstrate the relevance of the challenges in the current research. We believe that this paper will be of relevance to anyone who has scientific interest in extended reality, and/or uses these systems in their research.

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“…Immersive VR environments enable researchers to study psychological phenomena that are more closely connected to the subjective experience of an individual (eg, a tall building to elicit fear) to recreate situations that elicit symptoms (eg, anxiety) or measure specific skills (eg, a kitchen to evaluate home safety). VR environments have been used to evaluate human and environmental factors associated with performing important instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) such as driving [ 4 ], navigating public transportation [ 5 ], cooking [ 6 ], social relatedness [ 7 ], and grocery shopping [ 8 ]. The relative advantage of virtual environments over physical spaces is the ability to safely expose individuals to situations that may pose a risk in real life (eg, driving while distracted) and the ability to create controlled environments that would be extremely difficult to duplicate in a consistent, standardized fashion in real-life simulations.…”

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Usability and Effectiveness of Immersive Virtual Grocery Shopping for Assessing Cognitive Fatigue in Healthy Controls: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Holdnack¹,

Brennan²

2021

JMIR Res Protoc

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Background Cognitive fatigue (CF) is a human response to stimulation and stress and is a common comorbidity in many medical conditions that can result in serious consequences; however, studying CF under controlled conditions is difficult. Immersive virtual reality provides an experimental environment that enables the precise measurement of the response of an individual to complex stimuli in a controlled environment. Objective We aim to examine the development of an immersive virtual shopping experience to measure subjective and objective indicators of CF induced by instrumental activities of daily living. Methods We will recruit 84 healthy participants (aged 18-75 years) for a 2-phase study. Phase 1 is a user experience study for testing the software functionality, user interface, and realism of the virtual shopping environment. Phase 2 uses a 3-arm randomized controlled trial to determine the effect that the immersive environment has on fatigue. Participants will be randomized into 1 of 3 conditions exploring fatigue response during a typical human activity (grocery shopping). The level of cognitive and emotional challenges will change during each activity. The primary outcome of phase 1 is the experience of user interface difficulties. The primary outcome of phase 2 is self-reported CF. The core secondary phase 2 outcomes include subjective cognitive load, change in task performance behavior, and eye tracking. Phase 2 uses within-subject repeated measures analysis of variance to compare pre- and postfatigue measures under 3 conditions (control, cognitive challenge, and emotional challenge). Results This study was approved by the scientific review committee of the National Institute of Nursing Research and was identified as an exempt study by the institutional review board of the National Institutes of Health. Data collection will begin in spring 2021. Conclusions Immersive virtual reality may be a useful research platform for simulating the induction of CF associated with the cognitive and emotional challenges of instrumental activities of daily living. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04883359; http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04883359 International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) PRR1-10.2196/28073

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Virtual reality: A new method to investigate cognitive load during navigation

Cited by 96 publications

References 65 publications

Physiological and behavioural responses of modification psychomotor task in the virtual reality on cycling

Physiological and behavioural responses of modification psychomotor task in the virtual reality on cycling

Extended Reality in Spatial Sciences: A Review of Research Challenges and Future Directions

Usability and Effectiveness of Immersive Virtual Grocery Shopping for Assessing Cognitive Fatigue in Healthy Controls: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

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