How Immersive Is Enough? A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Immersive Technology on User Presence

By James J. Cummings, Jeremy N. Bailenson. 2016

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Human-Computer Interaction

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Citations in the corpus

Facilitating empathy through virtual reality (2017, background): “This virtual reality presentation represents a number of the most important immersive features identified by Cummings and Bailenson (2015), including a wide field of view (360), tracking of user actions and rapid update rate.”
A Survey of Presence and Related Concepts (2017, background): “One can be involved but not present (e.g., watching a soap opera, reading a book)” [120], or “[A] user can feel spatially present in a VE designed to be boring without feeling engaged in it or cognitively involved” [39].”
A structural equation modeling investigation of the emotional value of immersive virtual reality in education (2018, background): “…of 1.67 in favor of immersive VR is larger than the results from a recent meta-analysis investigating the impact of immersion (e.g., immersive VR with head tracking compared to a desktop display), which found a medium impact of immersion on presence of r = 0.339 (Cummings & Bailenson, 2016).”
Avatar characteristics induce users’ behavioral conformity with small-to-medium effect sizes: a meta-analysis of the proteus effect (2019, background): “The effects of virtual reality (VR) on human perceptions are well documented (Cummings & Bailenson, 2015) and within such virtual environments, “ the avatar is the primary identity cue ” (Yee et al., 2007, p. 274).”
Investigating the effect of pre-training when learning through immersive virtual reality and video: A media and methods experiment (2019, background): “Cummings and Bailenson (2016) argue that immersion is an objective measure based on the vividness o ﬀ ered and the extent to which a medium shuts out the outside world.”
Presence and Cybersickness in Virtual Reality Are Negatively Related: A Review (2019, background): “…Davis et al., 2014; Rebenitsch and Owen, 2016) or of presence (see Lombard and Ditton, 1997; Schuemie et al., 2001; Sadowski and Stanney, 2002; Biocca et al., 2003; Lee, 2004; Sanchez-Vives and Slater, 2005; for a meta-analysis see Cummings and Bailenson, 2016), but rather, of their interrelation.”
Combating VR sickness through subtle dynamic field-of-view modification (2016, background): “However, there is also a well known relationship between FOV and presence, the subjective experience of being in one environment, even when one is physically situated in another [32]—Decreasing FOV can reduce the user's sense of presence (e.g., [4] [23] [34]).”
A Systematic Review of Social Presence: Definition, Antecedents, and Implications (2018, methodology): “In their meta-analysis on the impact of immersion on telepresence, Cummings and Bailenson (2016) similarly found that general modality (e.g., comparing an HMD with head-tracking to a desktop computer) was one of the most frequently studied predictors of telepresence.”
Immersive virtual reality increases liking but not learning with a science simulation and generative learning strategies promote learning in immersive virtual reality. (2020, background): “…between different types of VR outlined above is the degree of immersion (Cummings & Bailenson, 2016; Makransky & Lilleholt, 2018), which is the vividness offered by the system, and the extent to which the used display system is capable to shut out the outside world (Cummings & Bailenson, 2016).”
The Digital Workforce and the Workplace of the Future (2016, background): “…solutions that facilitate collaboration, communication, and document sharing (Gilson et al., 2015); however, the use of even more immersive technologies may help virtual teams members increase their presence, or the psychological experience of “ being there ” (Cummings & Bailenson, 2015).”