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Effects of prolonged exposure to feedback delay on the qualitative subjective experience of virtual reality

Dam, Loes C. J. van ; Stephens, Joey R. (2024)
Effects of prolonged exposure to feedback delay on the qualitative subjective experience of virtual reality.
In: PLOS ONE, 2018, 13 (10)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00027544
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Type of entry: Secondary publication
Title: Effects of prolonged exposure to feedback delay on the qualitative subjective experience of virtual reality
Language: English
Date: 23 July 2024
Place of Publication: Darmstadt
Year of primary publication: 24 October 2018
Place of primary publication: San Francisco
Publisher: PLOS
Journal or Publication Title: PLOS ONE
Volume of the journal: 13
Issue Number: 10
Collation: 20 Seiten
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00027544
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Abstract:

When interacting with virtual environments, feedback delays between making a movement and seeing the visual consequences of that movement are detrimental for the subjective quality of the VR experience. Here we used standard measures of subjective experiences such as ownership, agency and presence to investigate whether prolonged exposure to the delay, and thus the possibility to adapt to it, leads to the recovery of the qualitative experience of VR. Participants performed a target-tracking task in a Virtual Reality environment. We measured the participants’ tracking performance in terms of spatial and temporal errors with respect to the target in both No-Delay and Delay conditions. Additionally, participants rated their sense of “ownership” of holding a virtual tool, agency and presence on each trial using sliding scales. These single trial ratings were compared to the results of the more traditional questionnaires for ownership and agency and presence for both No-Delay and Delay conditions. We found that the participants’ sliding scales ratings corresponded very well to the scores obtained from the traditional questionnaires. Moreover, not only did participants behaviourally adapt to the delay, their ratings of ownership and agency significantly improved with prolonged exposure to the delay. Together the results suggest a tight link between the ability to perform a behavioural task and the subjective ratings of ownership and agency in virtual reality.

Identification Number: Artikel-ID: e0205145
Status: Publisher's Version
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-275446
Classification DDC: 000 Generalities, computers, information > 004 Computer science
100 Philosophy and psychology > 150 Psychology
Date Deposited: 23 Jul 2024 13:50
Last Modified: 31 Jul 2024 07:17
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/27544
PPN: 520177827
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