A Virtual Reality Memory Palace Variant Aids Knowledge Retrieval from Scholarly Articles
| Autor: | Cullen Jackson, Fumeng Yang, Jing Qian, Johannes Novotny, David Badre, David H. Laidlaw |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Elementary cognitive task
Recall Computer science 020207 software engineering 02 engineering and technology Mnemonic Virtual reality Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Memory management Human–computer interaction Signal Processing 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Task analysis Knowledge retrieval Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Set (psychology) Software |
| Zdroj: | IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. 27(12) |
| ISSN: | 1941-0506 |
| Popis: | We present exploratory research of virtual reality techniques and mnemonic devices to assist in retrieving knowledge from scholarly articles. We used abstracts of scientific publications to represent knowledge in scholarly articles; participants were asked to read, remember, and retrieve knowledge from a set of abstracts. We conducted an experiment to compare participants’ recall and recognition performance in three different conditions: a control condition without a pre-specified strategy to test baseline individual memory ability, a condition using an image-based variant of a mnemonic called a “memory palace,” and a condition using a virtual reality-based variant of a memory palace. Our analyses show that using a virtual reality-based memory palace variant greatly increased the amount of knowledge retrieved and retained over the baseline, and it shows a moderate improvement over the other image-based memory palace variant. Anecdotal feedback from participants suggested that personalizing a memory palace variant would be appreciated. Our results support the value of virtual reality for some high-level cognitive tasks and help improve future applications of virtual reality and visualization. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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