Multisensory Feedback Can Enhance Embodiment Within an Enriched Virtual Walking Scenario

Leonardis, Daniele; Frisoli, Antonio; Barsotti, Michele; Carrozzino, Marcello; Bergamasco, Massimo

doi:10.1162/pres_a_00190

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“…For example, Kishore et al (2014) showed how BCI could be used to embody people in a remote robot through which they could gesture and maintain a conversation with the people there. 96,97 The "Embodiment Station" reported by Leonardis et al (2014) was inspired by the setup in Surrogates. The Embodiment Station is a large chair that is a mobile platform that can induce force feedback (see text footnote 97 from minute 2:50).…”

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Enhancing Our Lives with Immersive Virtual Reality

2016

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SUMMARYVirtual reality (VR) started about 50 years ago in a form we would recognize today [stereo head-mounted display (HMD), head tracking, computer graphics generated images] -although the hardware was completely different. In the 1980s and 1990s, VR emerged again based on a different generation of hardware (e.g., CRT displays rather than vector refresh, electromagnetic tracking instead of mechanical). This reached the attention of the public, and VR was hailed by many engineers, scientists, celebrities, and business people as the beginning of a new era, when VR would soon change the world for the better. Then, VR disappeared from public view and was rumored to be "dead. " In the intervening 25 years a huge amount of research has nevertheless been carried out across a vast range of applications -from medicine to business, from psychotherapy to industry, from sports to travel. Scientists, engineers, and people working in industry carried on with their research and applications using and exploring different forms of VR, not knowing that actually the topic had already passed away.The purpose of this article is to survey a range of VR applications where there is some evidence for, or at least debate about, its utility, mainly based on publications in peer-reviewed journals. Of course not every type of application has been covered, nor every scientific paper (about 186,000 papers in Google Scholar): in particular, in this review we have not covered applications in psychological or medical rehabilitation. The objective is that the reader becomes aware of what has been accomplished in VR, where the evidence is weaker or stronger, and what can be done. We start in Section 1 with an outline of what VR is and the major conceptual framework used to understand what happens when people experience it -the concept of "presence. " In Section 2, we review some areas where VR has been used in science -mostly psychology and neuroscience, the area of scientific visualization, and some remarks about its use in education and surgical training. In Section 3, we discuss how VR has been used in sports and exercise. In Section 4, we survey applications in social psychology and related areas -how VR has been used to throw light on some social phenomena, and how it can be used to tackle experimentally areas that cannot be studied experimentally in real life. We conclude with how it has been used in the preservation of and access to cultural heritage. In Section 5, we present the domain of moral behavior, including an example of how it might be used to train professionals such as medical doctors when confronting serious dilemmas with patients. In Section 6, we consider how VR has been and might be used in various aspects of travel, collaboration, and industry. In Section 7, we consider mainly the use of VR in news presentation and also discuss different types of VR. In the concluding Section 8, we briefly consider new ideas that have recently emerged -an impossible task since during the short time we have written this page even newer idea...

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Section: Interacting By Thoughtmentioning

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2016

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“…Third, designing MR with more sensory effects enabling the customer to move, listen, crouch, move head, and so on, is advised. This creates not only better immersion [2,3], but it also makes the customer to talk more openly during and after the experience. This suggests a new outcome for the customer experience co-creation [11,12,13,27].…”

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“…During a MR experience, various effects, such as sight, movability, interaction and sounds are observed as user's emotions and responses [16,17]. Similar framework is used to study the feeling of embodiment [2,3] but these studies focus merely on a 'user', not on a 'customer' in a business context.…”

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“…While the impact of most internet and mobile technologies has been restricted to a limited number of human senses, cognitions and affections, MR technology development is targeting to control all five basic human senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch). It is assumed that the effect on the human mind and emotions will be more complete through total sensory immersion [2,3]. The development of immersive MR technologies that have both a broader and deeper effect on human experiences are opening new interesting research areas in marketing and sales.…”

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“…Based on these propositions, the research question is: How can various MR environments create experience-centric services? By testing service-and sensory designs as well as the potential of customer-experience management within MR technologies and environments, the study introduces a whole new re s e a rc h v e i n t o t he M R f i e l d , w h i c h h a s s o f a r concentrated on single technical features and their usability [e.g., 2,3]. Some studies have considered both user experience and sensory effects of different MR technologies and applications [7,8,9].…”

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Virtual Reality and Attitudes Toward Tourism Destinations

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Recent developments in Virtual Reality (VR) technology present a tremendous opportunity for the tourism industry. This research aims to better understand how the VR experience may influence travel decision making by investigating spatial presence in VR environments and its impact on attitudes toward tourism destinations. Based on a study involving virtual walkthrough of tourism destinations with 202 participants, two dimensions of spatial presence were identified: being somewhere other than the actual environment and self-location in a VR environment. The analysis revealed that users’ attention allocation to VR environments contributed significantly to spatial presence. It was also found that spatial presence positively affects post VR attitude change toward tourism destinations, indicating the persuasiveness of VR. No significant differences were found across VR stimuli (devices) and across prior visitation

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Multisensory Feedback Can Enhance Embodiment Within an Enriched Virtual Walking Scenario

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