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标题：The Virtual Pole: Exploring Human Responses to Fear of Heights in Immersive Virtual Environments
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作者：Myungho Lee ; Myungho Lee ; Gerd Bruder 等
期刊名称：Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting
印刷版ISSN：1860-2037
出版年度：2019
卷号：14
期号：6
DOI：10.20385/1860-2037/14.2017.6
出版社：University of Applied Sciences Dusseldorf
摘要：Measuring how effective immersive virtual environments (IVEs) are in reproducing sensations as in similar situations in the real world is an important task for many application fields. In this paper, we present an experimental setup which we call the virtual pole, in which we evaluated human responses to fear of heights. We conducted a set of experiments in which we analyzed correlations between subjective and physiological anxiety measures as well as the participant's view direction. Our results show that the view direction plays an important role in subjective and physiological anxiety in an IVE due to the limited field of view (FOV), and that the subjective and physiological anxiety measures monotonically increase with the increasing height. In addition, we also found that participants recollected the virtual content they saw at the top height more accurately compared to that at the medium height. We discuss the results and provide guidelines for simulations aimed at evoking fear of heights responses in IVEs.
关键词：Virtual Reality;fear of heights;physiological measures