Walking Through Virtual Doors: A Study on the Effects of Virtual Location Changes on Memory

Watson, Paul; Gaudl, Swen E.

Walking Through Virtual Doors: A Study on the Effects of Virtual Location Changes on Memory

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2021

Authors

Watson, Paul
Gaudl, Swen E.

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

The spaces we inhabit can shape and influence the way in which we learn or reinforce information. Virtual reality (VR) is a technology that allows us to alter and create designed environments with great freedom over the visual, audio, and narrative elements. This freedom would benefit from further guidelines that detail approaches and implementations to best achieve desired information delivery goals. In this paper we present findings of a study that applies location-based memory strategies to VR environments, with the aim to aid word list recall without the subjects being required to apply any memory strategy themselves. Our findings suggest that VR may interfere with the incidental processing of multiple rooms and potential aid to recall as demonstrated in real world studies.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:egve.20211321
,
booktitle = {ICAT-EGVE 2021 - International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments
},
editor = {Orlosky, Jason and Reiners, Dirk and Weyers, Benjamin
},
title = {{Walking Through Virtual Doors: A Study on the Effects of Virtual Location Changes on Memory
}},
author = {Watson, Paul and 
Gaudl, Swen E.
},
year = {2021
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-530X
},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-142-7
},
DOI = {10.2312/egve.20211321
}
}