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Virtual reality as a recovering environment - Implications for design principles
Osmo MattilaJani HolopainenIlona SödervikPetri ParvinenAntti Juhani LähtevänojaEssi Pöyrysubject
Work (electrical)Directed attention fatigueComputer scienceHuman–computer interaction05 social scienceseducationDesign elements and principles050109 social psychology0501 psychology and cognitive sciences516 Educational sciencesVirtual reality512 Business and Management050105 experimental psychologydescription
In this study, a simulated, VR-based environment was built and analyzed to explore if a VR environment can possess recovering effects. 61 university students tested a VR application depicting a forest and answered survey questions about the experience. The results showed that VR-environment can indeed have recovering effects. Moreover, when comparing to previous studies in real forests, the recovery effects were at similar levels. The study results suggest that as the VR-based environments can possess recovery effects, they can work as recovery environments at schools or similar environments. The study results offer implications for the designers and propose design principles to build recovering VR environments. Future research avenues to scrutinize the results in various research contexts are discussed.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-02-01 |