The Use of Virtual Reality for Episodic Memory Assessment

Sauzéon, Hélène; Pala, Prashant Arvind; Larrue, Florian; Wallet, Grégory; Déjos, Marie; Zheng, Xiaojiao; Guitton, Pascal; N’Kaoua, Bernard

doi:10.1027/1618-3169/a000131

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“…A recent study by Sauzéon et al (2015) used a powerwallbased VR system to test the effect on episodic memory of a virtual apartment. Participants had two methods for navigation through the apartment, either passively watching or using a joystick to actively explore.…”

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Enhancing Our Lives with Immersive Virtual Reality

2016

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SUMMARYVirtual reality (VR) started about 50 years ago in a form we would recognize today [stereo head-mounted display (HMD), head tracking, computer graphics generated images] -although the hardware was completely different. In the 1980s and 1990s, VR emerged again based on a different generation of hardware (e.g., CRT displays rather than vector refresh, electromagnetic tracking instead of mechanical). This reached the attention of the public, and VR was hailed by many engineers, scientists, celebrities, and business people as the beginning of a new era, when VR would soon change the world for the better. Then, VR disappeared from public view and was rumored to be "dead. " In the intervening 25 years a huge amount of research has nevertheless been carried out across a vast range of applications -from medicine to business, from psychotherapy to industry, from sports to travel. Scientists, engineers, and people working in industry carried on with their research and applications using and exploring different forms of VR, not knowing that actually the topic had already passed away.The purpose of this article is to survey a range of VR applications where there is some evidence for, or at least debate about, its utility, mainly based on publications in peer-reviewed journals. Of course not every type of application has been covered, nor every scientific paper (about 186,000 papers in Google Scholar): in particular, in this review we have not covered applications in psychological or medical rehabilitation. The objective is that the reader becomes aware of what has been accomplished in VR, where the evidence is weaker or stronger, and what can be done. We start in Section 1 with an outline of what VR is and the major conceptual framework used to understand what happens when people experience it -the concept of "presence. " In Section 2, we review some areas where VR has been used in science -mostly psychology and neuroscience, the area of scientific visualization, and some remarks about its use in education and surgical training. In Section 3, we discuss how VR has been used in sports and exercise. In Section 4, we survey applications in social psychology and related areas -how VR has been used to throw light on some social phenomena, and how it can be used to tackle experimentally areas that cannot be studied experimentally in real life. We conclude with how it has been used in the preservation of and access to cultural heritage. In Section 5, we present the domain of moral behavior, including an example of how it might be used to train professionals such as medical doctors when confronting serious dilemmas with patients. In Section 6, we consider how VR has been and might be used in various aspects of travel, collaboration, and industry. In Section 7, we consider mainly the use of VR in news presentation and also discuss different types of VR. In the concluding Section 8, we briefly consider new ideas that have recently emerged -an impossible task since during the short time we have written this page even newer idea...

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Section: Spatial Representation and Navigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing Our Lives with Immersive Virtual Reality

2016

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“…Specifically, proposals have been developed to use games to assess visuospatial ability (van der Ham et al, 2015; Serino et al, 2015), episodic memory (Sauzéon et al, 2016a; Sauzéon et al, 2016b; Arvind Pala et al, 2014; Sauzéon et al, 2012), prospective memory (Banville et al, 2010), attention (Delgado et al, 2016), executive functions (Aalbers et al, 2013; Renison et al, 2012) among other constructs (Manera et al, 2015; Siraly et al, 2015). Regarding the technological aspect (i.e., the type of device and user interfaces to support video game interaction) we can observe that the vast majority of the studies referenced are based on the use of a personal computer (PC).…”

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“…Regarding the technological aspect (i.e., the type of device and user interfaces to support video game interaction) we can observe that the vast majority of the studies referenced are based on the use of a personal computer (PC). In most cases users access to a Web application, although some desktop applications are also proposed (Sauzéon et al, 2016a; Sauzéon et al, 2016b; Sauzéon et al, 2012; Koenig & Krch, 2012). Other studies incorporate mobile devices such as smartphones (Thompson et al, 2012; Tong & Chignell, 2014) and tablets (van der Ham et al, 2015; Serino et al, 2015; Delgado et al, 2016; Pazzi et al, 2014), which facilitate mobility and access to video games regardless of the location of participants.…”

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“…It is worth noting that at the time of writing this paper, contributions proposing the ubiquitous TV set as interfacing device are scarce (Shatil et al, 2014; Arvind Pala et al, 2014; Sauzéon et al, 2012), no matter that it can be considered the most familiar technological device available at home in the case of senior adults (Vázquez et al, 2012; Ofli et al, 2016; Heart & Kalderon, 2013). …”

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The acceptability of TV-based game platforms as an instrument to support the cognitive evaluation of senior adults at home

Costa

Fernández‐Iglesias

Anido‐Rifón

et al. 2017

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IntroductionThe computing capabilities of state-of-the-art television sets and media centres may facilitate the introduction of computer-assisted evaluation at home. This approach would help to overcome the drawbacks of traditional pen-and-paper evaluations administered in clinical facilities, as they could be performed in a more comfortable environment, the subject’s home, and they would be more flexible for designing complex environments for the evaluation of neuropsychological constructs that are difficult to assess through traditional testing. The objective of this work was to obtain some initial evidence about the technical acceptance by senior adults of serious games played at home on the TV set and therefore about the convenience of further investigating such an approach to cognitive assesment.Materials and MethodsWe developed a collection of games to be deployed on a TV environment. These games were tried by a group of senior adults at their homes. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was used to validate this approach. Surveys were performed to study the perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use of such technical setting as an instrument for their cognitive evaluation; that is, its technical acceptance. Subjective information collected from participants was correlated with actual interaction data captured. An additional survey was performed 36 months after pilot testing to have an indication about the long-term perceptions about usefulness and ease of use.ResultsMore than 90% of participating subjects perceived cognitive games on TV as useful or very useful. The majority of participants selected the TV set as their preferred option to interact with serious games at home, when compared to other devices such as smartphones, tablets or PCs. This result correlates with the number of participants perceiving them as easily usable or very easy to use, and also with automatically captured interaction data. Three out of four seniors expressed their interest in keeping the system at home after the pilot. Besides, these perceptions are fairly stable in time as shown by the survey performed 36 months after pilot testing.LimitationsAlthough participating users are a representative sample of the Galician population, which in turn is comparable to the population of most rural areas in Europe, a larger and more diverse user sample would be needed to obtain significant results for a wider population profile.ConclusionThe study confirmed the technical acceptance, that is, the perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use, of the TV-based home technical setting introduced as a means of cognitive evaluation. This study provides initial evidence on the viability of a TV-based serious games approach for cognitive longitudinal screening at home with little intervention of clinical professionals, thus contributing to the early detection of cognitive impairments in the senior population.

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“…The main advantage of virtual environments is that they can be modeled and controlled exactly to an experiment's requirements, without having to build something similar in the real world [10]. Nowadays, virtual environments can be constructed with relative ease and it requires few resources to be able to run the necessary software [11].…”

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Scientific Articles Exploration System Model based in Immersive Virtual Reality and Natural Language Processing Techniques

Alfaro¹,

Linares²,

Herrera³

2018

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Abstract-After having carried out a historical review and identifying the state of the art in relation to the interfaces for the exploration of scientific articles, the authors propose a model based in an immersive virtual environment, natural user interfaces and natural language processing, which provides an excellent experience for the user and allows for better use of some of its capabilities, for example, intuition and cognition in 3-dimensional environments. In this work, the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion Hardware devices are used. This work aims to contribute to the proposal of a tool which would facilitate and optimize the arduous task of reviewing literature in scientific databases. The case study is the exploration and information retrieval of scientific articles using ALICIA (Scientific database of Perú). Finally, conclusions and recommendations for future work are laid out and discussed.

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The Use of Virtual Reality for Episodic Memory Assessment

Cited by 78 publications

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Enhancing Our Lives with Immersive Virtual Reality

Enhancing Our Lives with Immersive Virtual Reality

The acceptability of TV-based game platforms as an instrument to support the cognitive evaluation of senior adults at home

Scientific Articles Exploration System Model based in Immersive Virtual Reality and Natural Language Processing Techniques

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