Steed, A;
Friston, S;
Lopez, M;
Drummond, J;
Pan, Y;
Swapp, D;
(2016)
An ‘In the Wild’ Experiment on Presence and Embodiment using Consumer Virtual Reality Equipment.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
, 22
(4)
pp. 1406-1414.
10.1109/TVCG.2016.2518135.
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Abstract
Consumer virtual reality systems are now becoming widely available. We report on a study on presence and embodiment within virtual reality that was conducted ‘in the wild’, in that data was collected from devices owned by consumers in uncontrolled settings, not in a traditional laboratory setting. Users of Samsung Gear VR and Google Cardboard devices were invited by web pages and email invitation to download and run an app that presented a scenario where the participant would sit in a bar watching a singer. Each participant saw one of eight variations of the scenario: with or without a self-avatar; singer inviting the participant to tap along or not; singer looking at the participant or not. Despite the uncontrolled situation of the experiment, results from an in-app questionnaire showed tentative evidence that a self-avatar had a positive effect on self-report of presence and embodiment, and that the singer inviting the participant to tap along had a negative effect on self-report of embodiment. We discuss the limitations of the study and the platforms, and the potential for future open virtual reality experiments.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | An ‘In the Wild’ Experiment on Presence and Embodiment using Consumer Virtual Reality Equipment |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/TVCG.2016.2518135 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2016.2518135 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2016 IEEE. This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1474831 |
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