Driving behaviours in immersive Virtual Environments: a pilot study about the relations beween Presence, Workload and Simulation Sickness

Abstract

openParallelamente ad uno studio sui comportamenti di guida all'interno di un ambiente virtuale CAVE, sono state effettuate misurazioni su senso di Presence, Simulation Sickness e Workload mentale per mezzo di questionari appositi. L'analisi statistica dei risultati ottenuti potrà mettere in luce eventuali relazioni fra questi costrutti ritenuti importanti nel contesto di validazione del simulatore di guida e per la validità ecologica dell'esperimento.This study was carried along with another one, which aimed to measure neural activation while driving in a CAVE virtual environment. Presence, Simulation Sickness and Mental Workload scores were derived from subjects through self-reported questionnaires. The statistical analyses of the results could highlight the interactions between these constructs, which are considered to be important in the validation process of the simulator and to assess the ecological validity of the experiment itself