Training presence: The importance of virtual reality experience on the "sense of being there"

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 154, Issue , 2010, Pages 128-133

  Gamito, Pedro ^a,b   Oliveira, Jorge ^a   Morais, Diogo ^a   Baptista, André ^a   Santos, Nuno ^a   Soares, Fábio ^a   Saraiva, Tomaz ^a   Rosa, Pedro ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDADE LUSÓFONA DE HUMANIDADES E TECNOLOGIAS   (Portugal)

^b Clínica São João De Deus   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Behavioral measures; Cybersickness; First Person Shooters; Immersion; Personality; Presence

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; E-LEARNING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANXIETY; BEHAVIORAL MEASURES; CYBERSICKNESS; FIRST PERSON SHOOTER; IMMERSION; PERSONALITY; PRESENCE;

BRAIN MAPPING;

EID: 77954568611     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-561-7-128     Document Type: Conference Paper

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