Social engagement and user immersion in a socially based virtual world

Grinberg, Austin M.; Careaga, Jesus Serrano; Mehl, Matthias R.; O’Connor, Mary Frances

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2014.04.008

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“…SL was not developed for research, but social scientists soon recognized its utility as a platform to study human interaction. A number of the studies conducted have tended to focus on examining the unique characteristics of SL participants (Hooi & Cho, 2014;McLeod, Liu, & Axline 2014), the behavior of SL avatars in virtual worlds (Grinberg, Careaga, Mehl, & O'Connor, 2014;Hooi & Cho, 2013), the use of SL for online instruction within educational institutions (Halvorson, Ewing, & Windisch, 2011;Inman, Wright, & Hartman, 2010), or the feasibility of conducting social experiments and experimental manipulations in SL (Greiner, Caravella, & Roth, 2014;Lee, 2014;Tawa, Negrón, Suyemoto, & Carter, 2015). A handful of studies have used SL as a tool for recruitment, though generally the recruitment goals are directed at specific populations (Keelan et al, 2015;Swicegood & Haque 2015).…”

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An examination of the equivalency of self-report measures obtained from crowdsourced versus undergraduate student samples

Briones

Benham

2016

Behav Res

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Increasingly, researchers have begun to explore the potential of the Internet to reach beyond the traditional undergraduate sample. In the present study, we sought to compare the data obtained from a conventional undergraduate collegestudent sample to data collected via two online survey recruitment platforms. In order to examine whether the data sampled from the three populations were equivalent, we conducted a test of equivalency using inferential confidence intervals-an approach that differs from the more traditional null hypothesis significance testing. The results showed that the data obtained via the two online recruitment platforms, the Amazon Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing site and the virtual environment of Second Life, were statistically equivalent to the data obtained from the college sample, on the basis of means of standardized measures of psychological stress and sleep quality. Additionally, correlations between the sleep and stress measures were not statistically different between the groups. These results, along with practical considerations for the use of these recruitment platforms, are discussed, and recommendations for other researchers who may be considering the use of these platforms are provided.

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An examination of the equivalency of self-report measures obtained from crowdsourced versus undergraduate student samples

Briones

Benham

2016

Behav Res

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“…Equally, immersion has been defined as the state of flow when navigating a virtual environment (Koh & Kim, 2003). Hence, flow experiences and immersion are mutually related in the sense that flow is an affective outcome that follows from the cognitive phenomenon of interpreting spatial, acoustic, tactile, visceral, and social cues as if one were enveloped by a virtual world (Grinberg, Careaga, Mehl, & O'Connor, 2014). In a cyclic fashion, the more flow a gamer experiences, the stronger the sense of immersion into virtual reality.…”

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Impact of violent video game realism on the self-concept of aggressiveness assessed with explicit and implicit measures

Zumbach

Seitz

Bluemke

2015

Computers in Human Behavior

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a b s t r a c tWe compared the standard 2D representation of a recent violent computer game to its 3D representation realized by shutter-goggles in a lab experiment. Assuming that the higher degree of realism of media violence would impact stronger on players in a pretest-posttest design, we analyzed the influence of violent video game exposure on implicit and explicit measures of aggressiveness. According to an explicit questionnaire on aggressiveness, participants reported having becoming more peaceful, whereas an Implicit Association Test on aggressiveness (Agg-IAT) indicated that the association between self and aggressive behavior became stronger after violence exposure, confirming the unique utility of Agg-IATs in media research. The 3D visualization mode, however, did not further strengthen this association, and a mediation model of increases in aggressiveness by participants' flow experiences was not supported. When inspecting flow experiences, an interaction effect between gender and visualization mode was evident: Male participants were more likely to have flow experiences in the high-realism (3D) format, whereas female participants were more likely to experience flow in the standard (2D) mode. We discuss the findings in the context of automatic information processing in aggression, and we contend possible changes in automatic behavioral precursors due to media influence.

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“…Levels of immersion extend beyond the environment itself. A strong social component -with avatars or other human users -has been found to be equally, if not more, important to immersion than spatial exploration [14]. We can see this replicated in the video game industry today with many developers weighing the multiplayer social component of the game over the single player element.…”

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Head-Mounted Virtual Reality and Mental Health: Critical Review of Current Research (Preprint)

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Grindle²,

Woerden³

et al. 2017

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Social engagement and user immersion in a socially based virtual world

Cited by 59 publications

References 31 publications

An examination of the equivalency of self-report measures obtained from crowdsourced versus undergraduate student samples

An examination of the equivalency of self-report measures obtained from crowdsourced versus undergraduate student samples

Impact of violent video game realism on the self-concept of aggressiveness assessed with explicit and implicit measures

Head-Mounted Virtual Reality and Mental Health: Critical Review of Current Research (Preprint)

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