The Use of Virtual Reality Alone Does Not Promote Training Performance (but Sense of Presence Does)

Grassini, Simone; Laumann, Karin; Skogstad, Martin Rasmussen

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01743

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“…Females were also found to be more sensitive to emotional information in the simulated environment (Mousas et al, 2018 ), and to report a higher level of sense of embodiment (Scheibler and Rodrigues, 2018 ), as well as of presence, when 3D images were showed (Narciso et al, 2019 ). It has been often proposed that sense of presence and performance are often connected (e.g., Lombard and Ditton, 1997 ; Witmer and Singer, 1998 ; Grassini et al, 2020 ). The fact that females perform better may be due to the higher sense of presence (or a presence-related phenomenon such as realism) that female participants sometimes experience (see Bracken, 2005 ).…”

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Are Modern Head-Mounted Displays Sexist? A Systematic Review on Gender Differences in HMD-Mediated Virtual Reality

Grassini

Laumann

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Modern head-mounted displays (HMDs) are a promising technology. Thanks to their affordable cost and versatility, HMDs are gaining attention from different sectors. However, the experience reported by the users of these technologies is sometimes negative. A number of people, when using an HMD, complain of various types of physical discomfort as well as symptoms like headache, disorientation, and nausea. These symptoms, developed during or after exposure to virtual environments, are commonly referred to with the term simulator sickness. Some scientific studies have shown that women are commonly more sensitive to simulator sickness. However, a gender imbalance in the susceptibility to simulator sickness has not been widely studied in the context of modern HMDs, and the studies that have been done have reported heterogeneous findings. The present systematic review aims to gather the pieces of evidence that support and oppose a gender difference in the susceptibility of simulator sickness in the framework of modern HMDs. We also aim to individuate other gender differences in the experience of the use of these technologies to establish whether there is sufficient evidence to support a gender discrepancy in the user experience.

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Are Modern Head-Mounted Displays Sexist? A Systematic Review on Gender Differences in HMD-Mediated Virtual Reality

Grassini

Laumann

2020

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“…Furthermore, this information can be used to determine which sample of employees may be less susceptible to the use of these new visualization technologies. HMD-mediated VR environments are now often proposed to employees as training methods for safety procedures (for example, [115,116]) and has been proposed as a method to train specific tasks [117,118]. Thus, this kind of assessment will likely become increasingly important.…”

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Association of Individual Factors with Simulator Sickness and Sense of Presence in Virtual Reality mediated by head-mounted displays (HMDs)

Grassini¹,

Laumann²,

Luzi³

2020

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Many studies have attempted to understand which individual differences may be related to the symptoms of discomfort during the virtual experience (simulator sickness) and the generally considered positive sense of being inside the simulated scene (sense of presence). Nevertheless, due to the quick technological advancement in the field of virtual reality, most of these studies are now outdated. Advanced technology for virtual reality is commonly mediated by head-mounted displays (HMDs), which aim to increase the sense of the presence of the user, remove stimuli from the external environment, and provide high definition, photo-realistic, three-dimensional images. Our results showed that motion sickness susceptibility and simulator sickness are related and neuroticism may be associated and predict simulator sickness. Furthermore, the results showed that people who are more used to playing video-games are less susceptible to simulator sickness; female participants reported more simulator sickness compared to males (but only for nausea-related symptoms). Female participants also experienced a higher sense of presence compared to males. We suggests that published findings on simulator sickness and the sense of presence in virtual reality environments need to be replicated with the use of modern HMDs.

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“…These results indicate that the arm-reaching task in VEs may not facilitate sequential learning because of the lack of tactile stimulation. Furthermore, several studies have reported that motor learning in VEs is in uenced by individual factors 15,33,34 . For instance, experience with video games showed a positive impact on performance in VEs 15,35 .…”

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Sequential Motor Learning Transfers from Real to Virtual Environment

Takeo

Hara

Shirakawa

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Background:Skill acquisition of motor learning between virtual environments (VEs) and real environments (REs) may be related. Although studies have previously examined the transfer of motor learning in VEs and REs through the same tasks, only a small number of studies have focused on studying the transfer of motor learning in VEs and REs by using different tasks. Thus, detailed effects of the transfer of motor skills between VEs and REs remain controversial. Here, we investigated the transfer of sequential motor learning between VEs and REs conditions.Methods:Twenty-seven healthy volunteers performed two types of sequential motor learning tasks; a visually cued button press task in RE (RE task) and a virtual reaching task in VE (VE task). Participants were randomly assigned to two groups in the task order; the first group was RE task followed by VE task and the second group was VE task followed by RE task. Subsequently, the response time in RE task and VE task was compared between the two groups respectively.Results:The results revealed that sequential motor learning was transferred when motor learning in VEs was performed after motor learning in REs, but not when motor learning in REs was performed after motor learning in VEs.Conclusions:These findings suggested that sequential motor learning in VEs can be facilitated by motor learning task consisting of the same sequence in REs even when different task is applied. These results may derive from the fact that motor learning in REs is more implicit than that in VEs.

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The Use of Virtual Reality Alone Does Not Promote Training Performance (but Sense of Presence Does)

Cited by 110 publications

References 41 publications

Are Modern Head-Mounted Displays Sexist? A Systematic Review on Gender Differences in HMD-Mediated Virtual Reality

Are Modern Head-Mounted Displays Sexist? A Systematic Review on Gender Differences in HMD-Mediated Virtual Reality

Association of Individual Factors with Simulator Sickness and Sense of Presence in Virtual Reality mediated by head-mounted displays (HMDs)

Sequential Motor Learning Transfers from Real to Virtual Environment

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