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Abstract | ||
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Presence is one of the goals of many virtual reality systems. Historically, in the context of virtual reality, the concept of presence has been associated much with spatial perception (bottom up process) as its informal definition of "feeling of being there" suggests. However, recent studies in presence have challenged this view and attempted to widen the concept to include psychological immersion, thus linking more high level elements (processed in a top down fashion) to presence such as story and plots, flow, attention and focus, identification with the characters, emotion, etc. In this paper, we experimentally studied the relationship between two content elements, each representing the two axis of the presence dichotomy, perceptual cues for spatial presence and sustained attention for (psychological) immersion. Our belief was that spatial perception or presence and a top down processed concept such as voluntary attention have only a very weak relationship, thus our experimental hypothesis was that sustained attention would positively affect spatial presence in a virtual environment with impoverished perceptual cues, but have no effect in an environment rich in them. In order to confirm the existence of the sustained attention in the experiment, fMRI of the subjects were taken and analyzed as well. The experimental results showed that that attention had no effect on spatial presence, even in the environment with impoverished spatial cues. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2004 | 10.1145/1077534.1077549 | VRST |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
voluntary attention,virtual reality system,virtual reality,presence dichotomy,sustained attention,impoverished spatial cue,processed concept,virtual environment,spatial presence,spatial perception,top down processing,positive affect,bottom up,attention,top down,psychology | Computer vision,Virtual reality,Virtual machine,Spatial cues,Computer science,Top-down and bottom-up design,Spatial perception,Cognitive psychology,Artificial intelligence,Immersion (virtual reality),Perception,Feeling | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
1-58113-907-1 | 5 | 0.55 |
References | Authors | |
22 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sungkil Lee | 1 | 226 | 21.93 |
| Gerard J. Kim | 2 | 236 | 38.45 |
| Jang-Han Lee | 3 | 43 | 10.55 |