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Back to Wonderland: Using Postural Sway Analysis in Addition to Embodiment and Presence Surveys for VR

Von Drasek, Nathan James
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3342-2034
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1699618855984739

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2023, Doctor of Philosophy, Miami University, Psychology.
In the current VR literature, postural sway analysis and survey methodologies are useful ways that researchers look to measure participant behavior and experience, but as they are typically performed separately, insights into participant experiences may be limited. The current project sought to employ both methods at the same time to gather new insights from participants as they go through radical changes in their avatar (virtual self) while performing two tasks in a virtual environment. This work sought to demonstrate the effectiveness of different surveys in capturing participant experience; demonstrate how postural sway analysis can provide insight into participants’ experience; and illustrate how combining both datasets allow for a more complete representation of participants’ phenomenological and behavioral experience in VR. We discovered that while the two types of data were not directly tied together, experience from participants could be partially explained from the behavioral measures collected.
Leonard Smart (Advisor)
Joseph Johnson (Committee Member)
Vrinda Kalia (Committee Member)
Eric Hodgson (Committee Member)
Jeffery Hunger (Committee Member)
56 p.
Psychology
VR; virtual reality; motion capture; postural sway analysis; Virtual Embodiment Questionnaire; Igroup Presence Questionnaire; embodiment; presence; perception; action; VRChat; ecological; survey; surveys; psychology; height; alternate reality;

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  • Von Drasek, N. J. (2023). Back to Wonderland: Using Postural Sway Analysis in Addition to Embodiment and Presence Surveys for VR [Doctoral dissertation, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1699618855984739

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Von Drasek, Nathan. Back to Wonderland: Using Postural Sway Analysis in Addition to Embodiment and Presence Surveys for VR. 2023. Miami University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1699618855984739.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Von Drasek, Nathan. "Back to Wonderland: Using Postural Sway Analysis in Addition to Embodiment and Presence Surveys for VR." Doctoral dissertation, Miami University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1699618855984739

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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