Paper Info
Title
Effects of Emotion and Agency on Presence in Virtual Reality
Abstract
ABSTRACT Arguably one of the most important characteristics of virtual reality (VR) is its ability to induce higher feelings of presence. Still, research has remained inconclusive on how presence is affected by human factors such as emotion and agency. Here we adopt a novel design to investigate their effects by testing virtual environments inducing either happiness or fear, with or without user agency. Results from 121 participants showed that the dominant emotion induced by a virtual environment is positively correlated with presence. In addition, agency had a significant positive effect on presence and, furthermore, moderated the effect of emotion on presence. We show for the first time that the effects of emotion and agency on presence are not straightforward but they can be modelled by separating design factors from subjective measures. We discuss how these findings can explain seemingly conflicting results of related work and their implications for VR design.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3411764.3445588
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Crescent Jicol100.34
Chun Hin Wan200.34
Benjamin Doling300.34
Caitlin H. Illingworth400.34
Jinha Yoon500.34
Charlotte Headey600.34
Christof Lutteroth733646.62
Michael J. Proulx842.48
Karin Petrini942.21
Eamonn O'neill1058766.10