Study of an interactive and total immersive device with a personal 3d viewer and its effects on the explicit long-term memories of the subjects

Evelyne Lombardo

pp. 75-84

in: Randall Shumaker, Stéphanie Lackey (eds), Virtual, augmented and mixed reality. designing and developing virtual and augmented environments, Berlin, Springer, 2014

Abstract

We studied an interactive (functional and intentional interactivity) and immersive (technical and psychological immersion) device with a personal 3D viewer (360° vision and environmentally ego-centered) and its effects on the explicit long-term memories of the subjects (4 groups of 30 students for a total of 120 subjects) (2007 and 2012).We have tested memory, communication and feeling of presence in our virtual environment with a canonic test of presence (Witmer and Singer, 1998). This article is a reflection on these 3D devices and their impact on the long term memory of the students, and on their presence sensation.