Project Number
- 320
Title
- Physiological Reaction and Presence in Stressful Virtual Environments
Description
- Research demonstration on gauging virtual environment effectiveness through physiological metrics.
Contact
- Michael Meehan, Mary Whitton, et al
Affiliation
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Address
- Department of Computer Science
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3175
- meehan@cs.unc.edu, whitton@cs.unc.edu
WWW
Year
- 2002
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "A common measure of the quality or effectiveness of a virtual environment (VE) is the amount of 'presence' (the sense of 'being there') it evokes in users. For any VE that elicits a physiological reaction - stressful, relaxing or otherwise - it is possible to construct a physiological measure of presence. These physiological measures of presence can be used to understand which aspects of the VE are important for improving presence."
- In the 2002 Emerging Technologies demonstration, visitors can experience the dramatic VE constructed for this research that demonstrates that heart hate is a reliable, valid, sensitive, and objective measure of presence in stressful virtual environments.
- The exhibit measures heart rate, skin conductance, and skin temperature while an attendee is subjected to a virtual task in a one-to-one scale environment with an unguarded hole above a 20ft deep room.
Sight
- graphics workstation, head-mounted display
Sound
- embedded audio
Touch
- tracking manipulator, sensor gear, head-mounted display
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 312 - health / medicine
Secondary
- 201 - virtual environment
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
- Reported in Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2002, "Physiological Measures of Presence in Stressful Virtual Environments," M Meehan, B, Insko, M. Whitton, F. Brooks, et al.
Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
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