Stepping into Virtual Reality

Gutiérrez, Mario; Vexo, Frédéric; Thalmann, Daniel

doi:10.1007/978-1-84800-117-6

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“…Mobile phones are understood by tourists as a resource that supports their experience through technologies that allow location awareness and context awareness [15], augmented reality [16], or applications that contribute to an improved tourist experience and access to new possibilities, among others [14,17]. Tourists' use of smartphones goes beyond the functionalities that this offers and includes an equally significant social value.…”

Section: The Use Of Mobile Devices and The Perception Of Risk Among Tmentioning

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Tourists’ Risk Perception and the Use of Mobile Devices in Beach Tourism Destinations

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Abstract:The perceived risk of tourists' use of smartphones is a key issue in shaping the tourist experience in terms of sustainability, as it can affect the behaviour of tourists and influence their satisfaction with that experience. However, little empirical research exists on the relationship between tourists' risk perception and the perceived value of mobile device usage. This paper measures the association between tourists' perceived risk of mobile device usage and several variables that demonstrate the perceived usefulness of mobile devices: utility, hedonic value and future intention of use. A survey on tourists' use of smartphones was conducted in 2016 and, by means of a cluster analysis, four groups of tourists were identified with significant differences in their perception of the risk and use value of smartphones. Differences between tourists suggest that a single digital tourist profile does not exist and that tourism destinations and smart tourism DMOs (destination marketing organisations) should include risk perception in their management agenda. This will allow them to achieve a better understanding of tourist behaviour and to adapt the commercialisation of tourism products and services to a wide range of tourism needs. In addition, four regression models were applied to measure the association between the risk and perceived usefulness of mobile devices. On the one hand, dependence on mobile devices was associated positively with the perceived usefulness of mobile devices. On the other hand, the tourists surveyed saw privacy risk as having a major negative impact on the tourist experience, although it did not affect their perceived utility value and future use of mobile devices. Smart tourism destination managers should bear in mind that privacy risk issues related to the use of mobile devices must be integrated into an ethical perspective when marketing a destination.

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Section: The Use Of Mobile Devices and The Perception Of Risk Among Tmentioning

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Tourists’ Risk Perception and the Use of Mobile Devices in Beach Tourism Destinations

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“…Even though there are few proposals about the use of multisensory feedback in the area of rehabilitation [19], its inclusion improves the ecological validity of the therapies as the most appropriate communication channel may be selected depending on the specific patient's features. Usually, as Gutiérrez et al [22] noticed, virtual reality (VR) environments offer a proper solution because of their capabilities to use different communication channels such as visual, aural, and haptic one. Moreover, the exploitation of different channels also helps to enhance how realistic a virtual environment is perceived by the user [10].…”

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Exploiting Awareness for the Development of Collaborative Rehabilitation Systems

Teruel¹,

Navarro²,

González³

2017

Mobile Information Systems

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Physical and cognitive rehabilitation is usually a challenging activity as people with any kind of deficit have to carry out tasks that are difficult due to their damaged abilities. Moreover, such difficulties become even harder while they have to work at home in an isolated manner. Therefore, the development of collaborative rehabilitation systems emerges as one of the best alternatives to mitigate such isolation and turn a difficult task into a challenging and stimulating one. As any other collaborative system, the need of being aware of other participants (their actions, locations, status, etc.) is paramount to achieve a proper collaborative experience. This awareness should be provided by using those feedback stimuli more appropriately according to the physical and cognitive abilities of the patients. This has led us to define an awareness interpretation for collaborative cognitive and physical systems. This has been defined by extending an existing proposal that has been already applied to the collaborative games field. Furthermore, in order to put this interpretation into practice, a case study based on an association image-writing rehabilitation pattern is presented illustrating how this cognitive rehabilitation task has been extended with collaborative features and enriched with awareness information.

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“…There are numerous hardware components, for instance for interaction, with better or worse capabilities, such as accuracy, working area, degrees of freedom, latency, etc. (Gutierrez et al 2008). There are no standardized procedures or ready packages, which means after analysis of just a few available applications, a conclusion can be drawn that almost every VR system is unique and built from scratch based on available components (De Mauro 2011, Greuter & Roberts 2015, Riva 2003.…”

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“…The stages are similar to stages that can be found in the process of building any VR application. Detailed guidelines of building realistic VR applications are far beyond the scope of this paper and have been a subject of numerous research (Burdea & Coiffet 2003, Gutierrez et al 2008, Scherman & Craig 2003, so only basic concepts will be described here with new input by the authors. The planning stage should consist of selection of specific hardware and software components.…”

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Effective Design of Educational Virtual Reality Applications for Medicine using Knowledge-Engineering Techniques

Górski

Buń

Wichniarek

et al. 2016

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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Effective medical and biomedical engineering education is an important problem. Traditional methods are difficult and costly. That is why Virtual Reality is often used for that purpose. Educational medical VR is a well-developed IT field, with many available hardware and software solutions. Current solutions are prepared without methodological approach. As a result, each VR system used for medical purposes is unique -there is no standardization, which leads to increased development time and costs. The paper presents an original methodology that can be used for building immersive virtual reality (VR) applications dedicated to training medical skills. The methodology is named "knowledgeoriented medical virtual reality" (KOMVR), as it uses basic knowledge-engineering tools during processes of planning, building and verification of interactive educational solutions. The paper shows successive stages of the methodology and the tools used for its execution. Effectiveness of the proposed methodology is illustrated with a simple example -a human body atlas. Major time reduction can be achieved while using the methodology -time reduction in the presented case was from 50 to 14 working days. The proposed innovative approach can increase effectiveness of preparation of educational VR solutions in medicine, but also in other branches of engineering.

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Stepping into Virtual Reality

Cited by 263 publications

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Tourists’ Risk Perception and the Use of Mobile Devices in Beach Tourism Destinations

Tourists’ Risk Perception and the Use of Mobile Devices in Beach Tourism Destinations

Exploiting Awareness for the Development of Collaborative Rehabilitation Systems

Effective Design of Educational Virtual Reality Applications for Medicine using Knowledge-Engineering Techniques

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