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Physiological measures of presence in stressful virtual environments
Abstract
A common measure of the quality or effectiveness of a virtual environment (VE) is the mount of presence it evokes in users. Presence is often defined as the sense of being there in a VE. There has been much debate about the best way to measure presence, and presence researchers need, and have sought, a measure that is reliable, valid, sensitive, and objective. We hypothesized that to the degree that a VE seems real, it would evoke physiological responses similar to those evoked by the corresponding real environment, and that greater presence would evoke a greater response. To examine this, we conducted three experiments, the results of which support the use of physiological reaction as a reliable, valid, sensitive, and objective presence measure. The experiments compared participants' physiological reactions to a non-threatening virtual room and their reactions to a stressful virtual height situation. We found that change in heart rate satisfied our requirements for a measure of presence, change in skin conductance did to a lesser extent, and that change in skin temperature did not. Moreover, the results showed that inclusion of a passive haptic element in the VE significantly increased presence and that for presence evoked: 30FPS > 20FPS > 15FPS.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Meehan, M., Insko, B., Whitton, M., & Brooks, F. P.
- Venue
- ACM Transactions on Graphics
- Published
- 2002-07
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 645-652
- ISSN
- 0730-0301 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7368
- OpenAlex
- W4250098481
- Cited by
- 469
- References
- 22
- FWCI
- 1.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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