A Comparison of Active and Passive Virtual Reality Exposure Scenarios to Elicit Social Anxiety

Sekhavat, Yoones A.; Nomani, Poorya

doi:10.17083/ijsg.v4i2.154

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“…A specific aspect of a virtual environment, related to the user's level of interactivity, is whether the simulation provides an active or passive experience. Active VR experiences involve a greater level of participation and interactivity with the virtual environment, allowing higher levels of presence to be experienced as users feel more engaged (Sekhavat and Nomani, 2017). Freeman, Lessiter, Pugh and Keogh (2005), highlighted the difference between active and passive simulations, while demonstrating their influence on presence.…”

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Virtual skills training: the role of presence and agency

Piccione

Collett

Foe

2019

Heliyon

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Virtual reality (VR) simulations provide increased feelings of presence and agency that could allow increased skill improvement during VR training. Direct relationships between active agency in VR and skill improvement have previously not been investigated. This study examined the relationship between (a) presence and agency, and (b) presence and skills improvement, via active and passive VR simulations and through measuring real-world golf-putting skill. Participants (n = 23) completed baseline putting skill assessment before using an Oculus Rift VR head-mounted display to complete active (putting with a virtual golf club) and passive (watching a game of golf) VR simulations. Measures of presence and agency were administered after each simulation, followed by a final putting skill assessment. The active simulation induced higher feelings of general presence and agency. However, no relationship was identified between presence and either agency or skill improvement. No skill improvement was evident in either the active or passive simulations, potentially due to the short training period applied, as well as a lack of realism in the VR simulations inhibiting a transfer of skills to a real environment. These findings reinforce previous literature that shows active VR to increase feelings of presence and agency. This study generates a number of fruitful research questions about the relationship between presence and skills training.

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Virtual skills training: the role of presence and agency

Piccione

Collett

Foe

2019

Heliyon

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“…Benefits are also seen in cost reduction connected with currency exchange rates and it has huge potential for simplifying frequent traveler loyalty programs (Kowalewski et al 2020). Further, an active AR experience put an emphasis on participation and interactivity with the virtual environment, allowing higher levels of presence to be experienced as users feel more engaged (Sekhavat and Nomani, 2017). Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that allows computer-generated virtual content to be displayed in real time.…”

Section: An Overvew Of Secondary Digital Technologies That Support Business Platformsmentioning

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Digitalisation and New Trends in Travel Distribution

Matešić

Pavić²,

Mihajlović

2022

DIEM: Dubrovnik International Economic Meeting

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This paper seek to understand the role of new technologies on transformation processes of special areas of business of travel intermediaries even emerging new entities that collaborate with both poles of tourism demand. Special attention is payed to results of modification of distribution channels to be competitive in online travel market. Softwer as channel manager is more than a tool, it is emerging as core intelligence that manage time, impacting on benefits from converegence. New technologies allowed new digital platforms (Booking, Airbnb, Expedia) making travel easier. The preferences of the postmodern tourist extend beyond the streamlined and impersonal experiences, services and products. Driven by the ambition of deviating from the beaten track, new generations of travellers are converging on digital platforms to retrieve recommendations and information from fellow travellers and local residents,i.e. sources other than traditional travel intermediaries. The COVID crisis has triggered a number of changes in the world of rental accommodation. Some of these changes are flexible cancellations, new market prices, and shorter booking window. High expections make preassure on attnders in channel of distribution. There is an even greater emphasis on cleanliness, privacy and security. At the end of the research, the results speak in favor of exceptional impact of new technology on business development as well as the role that human potential has in acquiring digital skills through education and training and providing their own tools or products that facilitate business. This paper consider sociological, economic and cultural dimension that impact on behavior of users of digital platforms are formulated to support previously incompatible ideas, like (1) models of economic systems, relationships); cultural and moral perspectives on human coexistence (negotiation, lifestyle, stewardship, prosocial behaviour/altruism, collaborative symbiosis and; ideas of efficiency and enhanced value creation.

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“…fear of spiders) (Lindner et al, 2020), aviophobia (i.e. fear of flying) (Wiederhold & Wiederhold, 2003), social phobia (Sekhavat & Nomani, 2017), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (Gonçalves et al, 2012) and other stress-related disorders (Guillén et al, 2018) (also see a summary in (Maples-Keller et al, 2017;Parsons & Rizzo, 2008)). In such treatments, VR was used to provide an immersive stimulus to help the patient feel the same anxiety as they would feel in the actual situation whilst being supported by the therapist in a safe physical environment.…”

Section: Virtual Reality In Mental Health and Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 99%