Exploring Individual Differences of Public Speaking Anxiety in Real-Life and Virtual Presentations

Yadav, Megha; Sakib, Nazmus; Nirjhar, Ehsanul Haque; Feng, Kexin; Behzadan, Amir H.; Chaspari, Theodora

doi:10.1109/taffc.2020.3048299

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“…This finding suggests that the public speaking in VR reduced anxiety but that the real-life compared to VR situation was more anxiety provoking after all. In addition, we observed a decrease of fear of public speaking over the course of the study supporting previous findings where exposure to public speaking resulted in reduced fear 9 , 10 , 26 , 27 . However, the current study did not include a non-practice or non-exposure condition, therefore changes in fear of public speaking could be driven by other factors.…”

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Public speaking training in front of a supportive audience in Virtual Reality improves performance in real-life

Kroczek,

Mühlberger

2023

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Public speaking is a challenging task that requires practice. Virtual Reality allows to present realistic public speaking scenarios in this regard, however, the role of the virtual audience during practice remains unknown. In the present study, 73 participants completed a Virtual Reality practice session while audience was manipulated to be supportive or unsupportive or presentations were practiced without audience. Importantly, following the virtual practice, participants held the presentation during a real university course via Zoom. We measured emotional experience, self-efficacy, and the subjective evaluation of performance at baseline, after VR practice, and after the real presentation. Additionally, participants’ performance in the real presentation was evaluated by instructors (blinded to condition). Supportive in contrast to unsupportive audiences led to more positive believes about one’s own performance, while there were no changes in beliefs in the group without audience. Importantly, practice in front of a supportive compared to unsupportive audience resulted in a more positive evaluation of speaker confidence in real-life public speaking as rated by the instructors. These results demonstrate an impact of virtual social feedback during public speaking on subsequent subjective performance evaluation. This may increase self-confidence resulting in actual improved public speaking performance in real-life.

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Public speaking training in front of a supportive audience in Virtual Reality improves performance in real-life

Kroczek,

Mühlberger

2023

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“…In the specific context of public speaking and treating public speaking anxiety, positive effects of VR training were reported (Nazligul et al, 2017;Sakib et al, 2019;Yadav et al, 2020). These results are further confirmed by Reeves et al's (2021) meta-analysis and Daniels et al's (2020) systematic literature reviews.…”

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Gamified Vr Simulation in Nursing Education: How to Generate Value With Vr in Nursing Education

2022

Proceedings of the International Conferences on Applied Computing 2022 and WWW/Internet 2022

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A shortage in nursing staff in Switzerland has reached a high level, and forecasts see the problem growing for the next years as there is a lack of candidates who are willing to sign up for nursing education programs. Prior research suggests that virtual reality (VR) can have positive effects on motivation, learning outcome, and trust. Therefore, we examine if VR in nursing education can help raise the attractiveness of education programs and help raise the number of people signing up for education programs which incorporate VR in their training and education.

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“…Furthermore, they point to the ability of VR to induce real-life emotions through immersion which contributes to the enhancement of public speaking skills. Thereby, various positive outcomes have been observed in previous studies: For example, Yadav et al (2022) found presentation exercises in front of a virtual audience led to both higher self-reported confidence and deeper physiological arousal before public appearances. Furthermore, it has been shown that VRPST can reduce public speaking anxiety (Takac et al, 2019;Boetje and Ginkel, 2021;Sülter et al, 2022) and it enhances presentation skills (e.g., nonverbal behavior) (Takac et al, 2019;Boetje and Ginkel, 2021;Sülter et al, 2022).…”

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Virtual reality public speaking training: effectiveness and user technology acceptance

Bachmann,

Subramaniam,

Born

et al. 2023

Front. Virtual Real.

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Public speaking is a fundamental task in many professional or personal situations. At the same time, there is widespread fear of it, and it takes practice to present well. Previous studies suggest that Virtual Reality Public Speaking Training (VRPST) offers a promising opportunity for this. However, studies evaluating objective and subjective indicators are lacking so far, and valid control conditions are missing in previous studies. We aimed to overcome these drawbacks. In our experiment, participants (N = 42) had the task of presenting a card game to a four-person audience using five provided PowerPoint slides within a time limit of 5 minutes. They prepared either using VRPST or using common self-directed preparation (control condition), being randomly assigned to a condition. Both groups were instructed to prepare for the task at home and given 30 min to learn the rules of the game and present them using the slides. The control group was given an additional 30 min to prepare individually for the presentation task at home. The experimental group received an additional 30-min VRPST session. This training session was done without specific feedback and the presentation was repeated three times. The quality of the rule explanation, the audience-assessed presentation quality, and the subjects’ self-assessed presentation quality were measured. Our results indicate that the VRPST is effective. Subjects who completed the VRPST did a better job of explaining the rules and were better rated by the audience. In addition, the experimental subjects also tended to rate their presentation better in the VRPST condition. Further analyses of those participants who completed the VRPST show high technology acceptance. Our results show the VR training had a significant performance-enhancing effect and that participants would use the VRPST if it were available to them. It seems that practicing a presentation in VR is useful and even better than a conventional preparation.

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Exploring Individual Differences of Public Speaking Anxiety in Real-Life and Virtual Presentations

Cited by 23 publications

References 63 publications

Public speaking training in front of a supportive audience in Virtual Reality improves performance in real-life

Public speaking training in front of a supportive audience in Virtual Reality improves performance in real-life

Gamified Vr Simulation in Nursing Education: How to Generate Value With Vr in Nursing Education

Virtual reality public speaking training: effectiveness and user technology acceptance

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