Measuring presence with verbal versus pictorial scales: A comparison between online- and ex post-ratings

Virtual Reality

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-53

  Wissmath, Bartholomäus ^a,b   Weibel, David ^a,b   Mast, Fred W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Swiss Universitary Institute of Distance Education   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Online measurement; Pictorial measures; Post rating; Presence; SAM; Verbal measures

Indexed keywords

APPLIED RESEARCH; IN-LINE; MENTAL WORKLOAD; ONLINE MEASUREMENT; SENSATION OF PRESENCE; VIDEO CLIPS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 77952883294     PISSN: 13594338     EISSN: 14349957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10055-009-0127-0     Document Type: Article

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