Measuring presence in virtual environments: A survey

V Souza, A Maciel, L Nedel, R Kopper - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The effectiveness of a virtual reality experience is strongly affected by the sense of presence
of the users involved. This article reviews the different definitions of presence and the main …

Quality assessment of acoustic environment reproduction methods for cinematic virtual reality in soundscape applications

JY Hong, B Lam, ZT Ong, K Ooi, WS Gan, J Kang… - Building and …, 2019 - Elsevier
With the advent of virtual reality (VR) technology, spatial audio has been increasingly
adopted to evaluate the acoustic environment in soundscape research. It is therefore …

Current use and future perspectives of spatial audio technologies in electronic travel aids

S Spagnol, G Wersényi, M Bujacz… - Wireless …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Electronic travel aids (ETAs) have been in focus since technology allowed designing
relatively small, light, and mobile devices for assisting the visually impaired. Since visually …

Immersion factors affecting perception and behaviour in a virtual reality power wheelchair simulator

A Alshaer, H Regenbrecht, D O'Hare - Applied ergonomics, 2017 - Elsevier
Virtual Reality based driving simulators are increasingly used to train and assess users'
abilities to operate vehicles in a controlled and safe way. For the development of those …

Influence of head tracking on the externalization of speech stimuli for non-individualized binaural synthesis

E Hendrickx, P Stitt, JC Messonnier… - The Journal of the …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Binaural reproduction aims at recreating a realistic audio scene at the ears of the listener
using headphones. In the real acoustic world, sound sources tend to be externalized (that is …

Auditory accommodation to poorly matched non-individual spectral localization cues through active learning

P Stitt, L Picinali, BFG Katz - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
This study examines the effect of adaptation to non-ideal auditory localization cues
represented by the Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) and the retention of training for …

Compensating for distance compression in audiovisual virtual environments using incongruence

DJ Finnegan, E O'Neill, MJ Proulx - … of the 2016 CHI Conference on …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
A key requirement for a sense of presence in Virtual Environments (VEs) is for a user to
perceive space as naturally as possible. One critical aspect is distance perception. When …

Sensitivity analysis of pinna morphology on head-related transfer functions simulated via a parametric pinna model

P Stitt, BFG Katz - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The head-related transfer function (HRTF) defines the acoustic path from a source to the two
ears of a listener in a manner that is highly dependent on direction. This directional …

Quantifying egocentric distance perception in virtual reality environment

V Korshunova-Fucci, FF van Himbergen… - … Journal of Human …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In virtual reality (VR) studies, where object distance plays a role of an independent variable,
unknown egocentric distance perception values can affect the interpretation of the collected …

The influence of visual distance on the room-acoustic experience of auralizations

BNJ Postma, BFG Katz - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Auralizations have become more prevalent in architectural acoustics and virtual reality.
Studies have shown that by employing a methodical calibration procedure, ecologically …