Immersion, Presence, and Performance in Virtual Environments: An Experiment with Tri-Dimensional Chess (1996)
| Venue: | ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST |
| Citations: | 35 - 1 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Slater96immersion,presence,,
author = {Mel Slater and Vasilis Linakis and Martin Usoh and Rob Kooper and Gower Street},
title = {Immersion, Presence, and Performance in Virtual Environments: An Experiment with Tri-Dimensional Chess},
booktitle = {ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST},
year = {1996},
pages = {163--172}
}
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Abstract
This paper describes an experiment to assess the influence of immersion on performance in immersive virtual environments. The task involved Tri-Dimensional Chess, and required subjects to reproduce on a real chess board the state of the board learned from a sequence of moves witnessed in a virtual environment. Twenty four subjects were allocated to a factorial design consisting of two levels of immersion (exocentric screen based, and egocentric HMD based), and two kinds of environment (plain and realistic. The results suggest that egocentric subjects performed better than exocentric, and those in the more realistic environment performed better than those in the less realistic environment. Previous knowledge of chess, and amount of virtual practice were also significant, and may be considered as control variables to equalise these factors amongst the subjects. Other things being equal, males remembered the moves better than females, although female performance improved with higher spati...
