The Effects of Immersion on Visual Attention and Detection of Signals Performance for Virtual Reality Training Systems

The Virtual Reality (VR) is becoming increasingly important for business, education, and entertainment, therefore VR technology have been applied for training purposes in the areas of military, safety training and flying simulators. In particular, the superior and high reliability VR training system is very important in immersion. Manipulation training in immersive virtual environments is difficult partly because users must do without the hap contact with real objects they rely on in the real world to orient themselves and their manipulated. In this paper, we create a convincing questionnaire of immersion and an experiment to assess the influence of immersion on performance in VR training system. The Immersion Questionnaire (IQ) included spatial immersion, Psychological immersion, and Sensory immersion. We show that users with a training system complete visual attention and detection of signals. Twenty subjects were allocated to a factorial design consisting of two different VR systems (Desktop VR and Projector VR). The results indicated that different VR representation methods significantly affected the participants- Immersion dimensions.

Authors:

• Shiau-Feng Lin
• Chiuhsiang Joe Lin
• Rou-Wen Wang
• Wei-Jung Shiang

Keywords:

• Virtual Reality
• Training
• Immersion
• Visual Attention
• Visual Detection

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