[HTML][HTML] Benefits of taking a virtual field trip in immersive virtual reality: Evidence for the immersion principle in multimedia learning

G Makransky, RE Mayer - Educational Psychology Review, 2022 - Springer
This study describes and investigates the immersion principle in multimedia learning. A
sample of 102 middle school students took a virtual field trip to Greenland via a head …

[HTML][HTML] A separate reality: An update on place illusion and plausibility in virtual reality

M Slater, D Banakou, A Beacco, J Gallego… - Frontiers in virtual …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We review the concept of presence in virtual reality, normally thought of as the sense of
“being there” in the virtual world. We argued in a 2009 paper that presence consists of two …

User acceptance of virtual reality: an extended technology acceptance model

C Sagnier, E Loup-Escande, D Lourdeaux… - … Journal of Human …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Although virtual reality (VR) has many applications, only few studies have investigated user
acceptance of this type of immersive technology. We propose an extended version of the …

Virtual reality, presence, and attitude change: Empirical evidence from tourism

IP Tussyadiah, D Wang, TH Jung, MC Tom Dieck - Tourism management, 2018 - Elsevier
The rapid development of virtual reality (VR) technology offers opportunities for a
widespread consumption of VR tourism content. It also presents challenges to better …

Virtual reality and tourism marketing: Conceptualizing a framework on presence, emotion, and intention

R Yung, C Khoo-Lattimore, LE Potter - Current Issues in Tourism, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In a post-COVID landscape, building interest and evoking positive emotions toward tourism
products are vital for destination recovery. As a result, interest and opportunity for the use of …

A scoping review of immersive virtual reality in STEM education

N Pellas, A Dengel… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although virtual reality (VR) simulation training has gained prominence, review studies to
inform instructors and educators on the use of this technology in science, technology …

Using presence questionnaires in virtual reality

V Schwind, P Knierim, N Haas, N Henze - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Virtual Reality (VR) is gaining increasing importance in science, education, and
entertainment. A fundamental characteristic of VR is creating presence, the experience …

Effects of virtual reality on theme park visitors' experience and behaviors: A presence perspective

W Wei, R Qi, L Zhang - Tourism management, 2019 - Elsevier
Advances in virtual reality (VR) technology exert increasingly influential impacts on tourism.
Drawn upon a presence perspective and a process theory, this research aims to explore …

The impact of avatar personalization and immersion on virtual body ownership, presence, and emotional response

T Waltemate, D Gall, D Roth, M Botsch… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article reports the impact of the degree of personalization and individualization of users'
avatars as well as the impact of the degree of immersion on typical psychophysical factors in …

A survey of presence and related concepts

R Skarbez, FP Brooks, Jr, MC Whitton - ACM computing surveys (CSUR), 2017 - dl.acm.org
The presence construct, most commonly defined as the sense of “being there,” has driven
research and development of virtual environments (VEs) for decades. Despite that, there is …