An Empirical Study on Spatial Presence in Immersive Geo-Environments
| Autor: | León Felipe Álvarez Sánchez, Florian Hruby, Rainer Ressl, Elva Escobar-Briones |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Geographic information system
Geospatial analysis Computer science Headset Geography Planning and Development 0507 social and economic geography Sense of presence 02 engineering and technology computer.software_genre Virtual reality Empirical research Immersive geo-environments Human–computer interaction Immersion 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Immersion (virtual reality) Instrumentation business.industry Replica 05 social sciences 020207 software engineering Visualization Geovisualization business 050703 geography computer Spatial presence |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s41064-020-00107-y |
| Popis: | Research on immersive virtual reality (VR) indicates that VR technologies facilitate understanding through the formation of spatial presence, which is the user’s feeling of “being there” in a virtual place. These findings make VR a highly interesting tool for geographic information science and the visualization of geospatial phenomena. However, immersion and presence are often studied under laboratory conditions, while research on virtual representations of real-world environments is still rare. This paper aims to reduce this gap empirically through a user study on spatial presence in immersive geo-environments. A total of 60 subjects entered a VR replica of a coral reef in the Mexican Caribbean built upon WorldView2 imagery. After testing within- and between-subject performance under both VR headset- and desktop-based visualization conditions, all users completed the IPQ self-report questionnaire to evaluate the sense of presence experienced. The results indicate a strong effect of immersion, leading to statistically significant higher levels of spatial presence in immersive geo-environments. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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