TY - GEN
T1 - Assessing the Sense of Presence to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Wildfire Training
AU - Heyao, Huang
AU - Tetsuro, Ogi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Virtual Reality is beneficial for high-risk training such as firefighting, extreme weather, and police due to cost and risk concerns. A fundamental characteristic of VR is creating the sense of being there and train participants to make the right decisions under high pressure. This research presents an experimental study that aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a Virtual Environment to train wildfire fighting by assessing the sense of presence. We have 10 participants who experienced the same Virtual Environment in two VR conditions represented by HTC Vive and Google Cardboard. The two devices represent two immersion levels. To evaluate the effectiveness, we used the Igroup Presence Questionnaire (IPQ) for participants to rate the subjective opinions of spatial presence, the real-time recorded ECG signal to indicate the stress level during the experiment, and skin temperature to show the excitement level.
AB - Virtual Reality is beneficial for high-risk training such as firefighting, extreme weather, and police due to cost and risk concerns. A fundamental characteristic of VR is creating the sense of being there and train participants to make the right decisions under high pressure. This research presents an experimental study that aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a Virtual Environment to train wildfire fighting by assessing the sense of presence. We have 10 participants who experienced the same Virtual Environment in two VR conditions represented by HTC Vive and Google Cardboard. The two devices represent two immersion levels. To evaluate the effectiveness, we used the Igroup Presence Questionnaire (IPQ) for participants to rate the subjective opinions of spatial presence, the real-time recorded ECG signal to indicate the stress level during the experiment, and skin temperature to show the excitement level.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-84913-9_28
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-84913-9_28
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85113510399
SN - 9783030849122
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 289
EP - 298
BT - Advances in Networked-Based Information Systems - The 24th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems, NBiS-2021
A2 - Barolli, Leonard
A2 - Chen, Hsing-Chung
A2 - Miwa, Hiroyoshi
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 24th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems, NBiS-2021
Y2 - 1 September 2021 through 3 September 2021
ER -