Distraction as a measure of presence: Using visual and tactile adjustable distraction as a measure to determine immersive presence of content in mediated environments

Virtual Reality

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-42

  Nordahl, Rolf ^a   Korsgaard, Dannie ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Computer games; Distraction; Evaluation; Measurement; Presence; Tactile; Visual

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAME; COMPUTER GAMES; EVALUATION METHOD; FLOW THEORIES; HEART RATES; IMMERSIVE; MASS MEDIA; SCREENING PROCESS; USER EXPERIENCE;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; USER INTERFACES;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77952880925     PISSN: 13594338     EISSN: 14349957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10055-009-0140-3     Document Type: Article

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