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Virtual Reality in Surgery: Between satisfaction and Stress [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
New Trends in Cognitive Science (NTCS01) Virtual Reality Philosophical Issues, Cognitive Foundations, Technological Implications, September 20-22, 2001, Vienna, AustriaThe present study is focused on usability issues related to laparoscopy, emphasizing ...
O'Hare, G. M. P. (Greg M. P.)   +2 more
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Social Interaction With Agents and Avatars in Immersive Virtual Environments: A Survey

open access: yesFrontiers in Virtual Reality, 2022
Immersive virtual reality technologies are used in a wide range of fields such as training, education, health, and research. Many of these applications include virtual humans that are classified into avatars and agents.
Christos Kyrlitsias   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Parallel reality : tandem exploration of real and virtual environments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Alternate realities have fascinated mankind since early prehistory and with the advent of the computer and the smartphone we have seen the rise of many different categories of alternate reality that seek to augment, diminish, mix with or ultimately ...
Davies, C. J.
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Older Adults’ Experiences and Perceptions of Immersive Virtual Reality: A Protocol for a Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2021
Background: In the current digital age, new opportunities arise to support healthy ageing in older adults as frailty and immobility become more prominent.
David Healy   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analyse of narrative and communicative features in experiences in virtual reality: levels of narrative and a case study

open access: yesJournal of Science and Technology of the Arts, 2022
Virtual reality is a technology and a communication medium which has dramatically evolved in the last decades. Undoubtedly, the medium has developed its own narrative dynamics and features, due to the possibility of interaction and the ability to allow ...
Ernesto Taborda-Hernández   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Study of Virtual Reality Immersive Technology Enhanced Mathematics Geometry Learning

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Mathematics is an important foundation for the development of science education. In the past, when instructors taught mathematical concepts of geometry shapes, they usually used traditional textbooks and aids to conduct teaching activities, which ...
Yu-Sheng Su   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reinforcement learning utilizes proxemics: an avatar learns to manipulate the position of people in immersive virtual reality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
A reinforcement learning (RL) method was used to train a virtual character to move participants to a specified location. The virtual environment depicted an alleyway displayed through a wide field-of-view head-tracked stereo head-mounted display.
Kastanis, Iason, Slater, Mel
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Different realities: a comparison of augmented and virtual reality for the sensemaking process

open access: yesFrontiers in Virtual Reality, 2023
Analysts perform sensemaking on large complex multimedia datasets in order to extract concepts, themes, and other kinds of insights from them. Immersive analytics, in particular, puts users in virtual environments that allow them to explore data in a ...
Lee Lisle   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Perceived Quality in the Automotive Industry: Do Car Exterior and Interior Color Combinations Have an Impact?

open access: yesApplied System Innovation
Since in the automotive field colors play an important role, the present study tried to answer the following questions: is the perceived quality (PQ) of the vehicle interior color different after visually exploring the car body color? If so, how?
Giuseppina Tovillo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

CAVE-based immersive learning in undergraduate courses: examining the effect of group size and time of application

open access: yesInternational Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2021
Immersive virtual reality is increasingly regarded as a viable means to support learning. Cave Automatic Virtual Environments (CAVEs) support immersive learning in groups of learners, and is of potential interest for educational institutions searching ...
Tycho T. de Back   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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