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The use of virtual reality as a potential restorative environment in school during recess
Antti Juhani LähtevänojaOsmo MattilaPetri ParvinenJani Holopainensubject
Restorative outcome scale attention restorationpalautuminen05 social sciencesApplied psychologySignificant differenceeducationStatistical differencekoululaisetVirtual forest050109 social psychologyContext (language use)Virtual realityvälitunnitmetsät050105 experimental psychologyVirtual realityvirtuaalitodellisuus0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesPsychologyluonnonympäristö1172 Environmental sciencesdescription
Publisher Copyright: © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved. Previous research has found out that simulated, Virtual Reality (VR)-based forests can bring equal or even higher restorative effects than real forests. In this study, a Virtual Reality (VR)-based forest was created in order to compare whether VR-based forest can possess restorative effects in the context of primary school, and how the possible effects compare to restorative effects of a normal recess or to a situation when there is no recess at all. The effects were measured using Restorative Outcome Scale (ROS) and problem-solving tasks after the intervention. The results showed that VR-based forest had the highest restorative effect. There was a significant difference between VR-forest and no recess-groups, but no statistical difference between VR-forest and normal recess-groups. Future research avenues and implications of virtual forests are discussed. Peer reviewed
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| 2020-01-01 |