The effects of video game use on performance in a virtual navigation task

Murias, Kara; Kwok, Kathy; Castillejo, Adrian Gil; Liu, Irene; Iaria, Giuseppe

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.01.020

Cited by 49 publications

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“…In addition, the lack of correlation in the real environments might be related to the use of different perceptual and cognitive abilities. Some evidence points to the understanding that higher visuo-spatial skills of gamers may be come from the practice (Basak et al, 2008;Murias et al, 2016).…”

Section: Spatial Ability and Game Experiencementioning

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Move the Object or Move Myself? Walking vs. Manipulation for the Examination of 3D Scientific Data

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Bowman

2018

Front. ICT

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Physical walking is consistently considered a natural and intuitive way to acquire viewpoints in a virtual environment. However, research findings also show that walking requires cognitive resources. To understand how this tradeoff affects the interaction design for virtual environments; we evaluated the performance of 32 participants, ranging from 18 to 44 years old, in a demanding visual and spatial task. Participants wearing a virtual reality (VR) headset counted features in a complex 3D structure while walking or while using a 3D interaction technique for manipulation. Our results indicate that the relative performance of the interfaces depends on the spatial ability and game experience of the participants. Participants with previous game experience but low spatial ability performed better using the manipulation technique. However, walking enabled higher performance for participants with low spatial ability and without significant game experience. These findings suggest that the optimal design choices for demanding visual tasks in VR should consider both controller experience and the spatial ability of the target users.

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Section: Spatial Ability and Game Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

Move the Object or Move Myself? Walking vs. Manipulation for the Examination of 3D Scientific Data

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Bowman

2018

Front. ICT

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“…It has been found that previous experience with computer games and virtual environments can also vastly affect the performance of a participant when given a virtual task [39]. A further adaption of the experiment could be to use two separate participant groups-gaming proficient and computer illiterate, which would allow us to compare the preferred characterisations of a virtual creature across the two groups.…”

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Virtual reality’s effect on parameter optimisation for crowd-sourced procedural animation

2018

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Procedural animation systems are capable of synthesising lifelike organic motion automatically. However, due to extensive parameterisation, tuning these systems can be very difficult. Not only are there potentially hundreds of interlinked parameters, the resultant animation can be very subjective and the process is difficult to automate effectively. In this paper, we describe a crowd-sourced approach to procedural animation parameter optimisation using genetic algorithms. We test our approach by asking users to interactively rate a population of virtual dolphins to a prescribed behavioural criterion. Our results show that within a few generations a group of users can successfully tune the system towards a desired behaviour. Our secondary motivation is to investigate whether there are differences in animation and behavioural preference between observations made using a standard desktop monitor and those made in virtual reality (VR). We describe a study where users tuned two sets of dolphin animation systems in parallel, one using a normal monitor and another using an Oculus Rift. Our results indicate that being immersed in VR leads to some key differences in preferred behaviour.

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“…Regarding measuring players' performance, there are many different choices (e.g., [24], [25]). Studies use different measures for different types of games [21].…”

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Practice in Reality for Virtual Reality Games: Making Players Familiar and Confident with a Game

2017

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Game designers include training levels in video games to prepare players so that they can enjoy the game. The training levels of virtual reality (VR) games are typically assumed to be within the virtual world of the game. New players must learn about a new game in such an unfamiliar virtual world. A tutorial in the real world offers a potential way to enable players to learn about a new game and to practice the skills in a familiar world. To explore any effects of a real-world tutorial in VR games, an experiment was conducted, the results of which show that a real-world tutorial is effective in helping new players feel confident about and familiar with a VR game before playing it. However, it is not as effective as virtual-world tutorial in increasing game performance.

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The effects of video game use on performance in a virtual navigation task

Cited by 49 publications

References 54 publications

Move the Object or Move Myself? Walking vs. Manipulation for the Examination of 3D Scientific Data

Move the Object or Move Myself? Walking vs. Manipulation for the Examination of 3D Scientific Data

Virtual reality’s effect on parameter optimisation for crowd-sourced procedural animation

Practice in Reality for Virtual Reality Games: Making Players Familiar and Confident with a Game

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