Cross-cultural assessment of automatically generated multimodal referring expressions in a virtual world

Sluis, Ielka van der; Luz, Saturnino; Breitfuí, Werner; Ishizuka, Mitsuru; Prendinger, Helmut

doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2012.05.002

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“…A study in Mexico, by González-Perellon et al [ 58 ], used a VE developed in Canada where cultural incongruences were more important than the current study and did report problems in presence. Van der Sluis et al [ 59 ] assessed the level of familiarity participants from Dublin and Tokyo attributed to a shopping center VE that was atypical of both cultures. Despite cultural incongruences, both participants from Dublin and Tokyo reported a high level of familiarity with the VE.…”

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Engaging in Awkward Social Interactions in a Virtual Environment Designed for Exposure-Based Psychotherapy for People with Generalized Social Anxiety Disorder: An International Multisite Study

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Botella

et al. 2023

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The effectiveness of in virtuo exposure-based treatment of performance-only social anxiety disorder (SAD) has been demonstrated in several studies. However, few studies have validated virtual environments with participants suffering from generalized SAD. The goal of this study is to confirm the potential of a virtual environment in inducing anxiety in adults suffering from generalized SAD, compared to adults without SAD, when engaged in awkward social interactions. Differences between participants from two different countries were also explored. The sample consisted of 15 participants with SAD from Canada, 17 participants without SAD from Canada, 16 participants with SAD from Spain, and 21 participants without SAD from Spain. All participants were immersed in a control virtual environment and in an experimental virtual environment considered potentially anxiety-inducing for individuals with generalized SAD. As hypothesized, results showed that the experimental virtual environment induced a higher level of anxiety than the control environment among participants with SAD compared to those without SAD. The impact on anxiety of each socially threatening task performed during the experimental immersion was statistically significant. In terms of anxiety responses, no significant differences were found between participants from Canada and Spain. However, spatial presence and ecological validity were higher in Canadians than in Spaniards. Unwanted negative side effects induced by immersions in virtual reality were higher in the SAD group. This study highlights the importance for therapists to engage people with SAD in clinically relevant tasks while immersed in VR psychotherapeutic applications.

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