Arguably the most important characteristic of virtual reality (VR) is its ability to induce feelings of presence. Still, research has remained inconclusive on how presence is affected by human factors such as emotion and agency. Here we adopt a novel design to investigate their effects by testing virtual environments inducing either happiness or fear, with or without user agency. Results from 121 participants showed that the dominant emotion induced by a virtual environment is positively correlated with presence. In addition, agency had a significant positive effect on presence and, furthermore, moderated the effect of emotion on presence. We show for the first time that the effects of emotion and agency on presence are not straightforward but they can be modeled by separating design factors from subjective measures. We discuss how these findings can explain seemingly conflicting results of related work and their implications for VR design.


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    Title :

    Effects of emotion and agency on presence in virtual reality



    Publication date :

    2021-05-31


    Remarks:

    Jicol , C , Wan , C H , Doling , B , Illingworth , C H , Yoon , J , Headey , C , Lutteroth , C , Proulx , M , Petrini , K & O'Neill , E 2021 , Effects of emotion and agency on presence in virtual reality . in CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems : Making Waves, Combining Strengths . , 529 , Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings , Association for Computing Machinery , pp. 1-13 , 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021 , Virtual, Online , Japan , 8/05/21 . https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445588



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    629



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