The Interplay Between Presence and Learning

Ochs, Carli; Sonderegger, Andreas

doi:10.3389/frvir.2022.742509

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“…In the past 20 + years there has been extensive research into virtual reality as a site of learning that can be utilised in both educational and professional contexts. Some suggest that the more immersive something is, the more information trainees retain (Alhalabi, 2016;Krokos, Plaisant and Varshney, 2019) although others suggest the reverse (Ochs and Sonderegger, 2022). Another study suggested that the emotion elicited by…”

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Dialing up the danger: Virtual reality for the simulation of risk

McIntosh

2022

Front. Virtual Real.

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There is a growing interest the use of virtual reality (VR) to simulate unsafe spaces, scenarios, and behaviours. Environments that might be difficult, costly, dangerous, or ethically contentious to achieve in real life can be created in virtual environments designed to give participants a convincing experience of “being there.” There is little consensus in the academic community about the impact of simulating risky content in virtual reality, and a scarcity of evidence to support the various hypotheses which range from VR being a safe place to rehearse challenging scenarios to calls for such content creation to be halted for fear of irreversible harm to users. Perspectives split along disciplinary lines, with competing ideas emerging from cultural studies and games studies, from psychology and neuroscience, and with industry reports championing the efficacy of these tools for information retention, time efficiency and cost, with little equivalence in information available regarding impact on the wellbeing of participants. In this study we use thematic analysis and close reading language analysis to investigate the way in which participants in a VR training scenario respond to, encode and relay their own experiences. We find that participants overall demonstrate high levels of “perceptual proximity” to the experience, recounting it as something that happened to them directly and personally. We discuss the impact of particular affordances of VR, as well as a participant’s prior experience on the impact of high-stress simulations. Finally, we consider the ethical mandate for training providers to mitigate the risk of traumatizing or re-traumatizing participants when creating high-risk virtual scenarios.

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Dialing up the danger: Virtual reality for the simulation of risk

McIntosh

2022

Front. Virtual Real.

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“…The mean age was 23.1 (SD = 1.65). All participants were students in the field of virtual reality, which avoids possible biases related to the first use of virtual reality which can make it difficult for participants to concentrate (Ochs & Sonderegger, 2022).…”

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Studying the effect of symmetry in team structures on collaborative tasks in virtual reality

Agnès

Fleury

Vanukuru

et al. 2022

Behaviour & Information Technology

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Studies involving collaboration in groups are frequently carried out under symmetrical conditions, meaning that all team members have the same role at the same time. In Virtual Reality, symmetrical collaboration often seems attractive as it allows all participants to be included in the VR environment, but it is not clear whether this provides any benefits over asymmetric forms of collaboration, such as when some team members are in VR while others are working on laptops. We conducted a study to compare the conditions of symmetric configurations (both team members use VR) and asymmetric configurations (one member in VR, and the other uses a laptop) when two participants performed a creativity task together. We found that there were differences in participant behavior and the ideas generated. We conclude by proposing guidelines for future work in the area, particularly related to the use of Virtual Reality for creativity workshops.

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“…Sense of presence is a multidimensional concept generally defined as the sense of being in a context displayed by a virtual environment [25]. Several studies have shown that most virtual environments can induce a sense of presence, which could be linked to emotional reactions and learning [26,27]. In fact, some studies have found a bidirectional relationship between emotions and sense of presence in a therapeutic context, showing that a higher sense of presence is associated with higher emotional intensity and vice versa [28].…”

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The Relationship between Sense of Presence, Emotional Response, and Clinical Outcomes in Virtual Reality-Based Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia: A Correlational Study

Augustin,

Beaudoin,

Giguère

et al. 2024

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Avatar therapy (AT) is a novel virtual reality-based psychotherapy that has been developed to treat auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) in treatment-resistant schizophrenia patients. Various psychotherapeutic components, such as emotions and sense of presence, could contribute to clinical outcomes. However, the interplay between sense of presence, emotions and clinical response has seldom been investigated. This study aimed to explore the relations between sense of presence, emotions, and clinical outcomes in AT. To conduct this investigation, data from previous and ongoing AT trials were used. Sense of presence and emotions were assessed using standardized questionnaires. AVH were evaluated using the Psychotic Symptom Rating Scales. While sense of presence was positively associated with positive emotions such as control and serenity, no significant associations were found for negative emotions. Moreover, a higher level of sense of presence was associated with a bigger decrease in AVH. Overall, positive emotions seem to be associated with sense of presence in AT. Sense of presence also seems to be involved in the therapeutic outcome, thereby suggesting that this could be an important component related to clinical response. More studies are needed to confirm these trends, which could be generalized to other virtual reality-based psychotherapies.

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The Interplay Between Presence and Learning

Cited by 14 publications

References 84 publications

Dialing up the danger: Virtual reality for the simulation of risk

Dialing up the danger: Virtual reality for the simulation of risk

Studying the effect of symmetry in team structures on collaborative tasks in virtual reality

The Relationship between Sense of Presence, Emotional Response, and Clinical Outcomes in Virtual Reality-Based Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia: A Correlational Study

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