TY  - JOUR
A1  - Steinhaeusser, Sophia C.
A1  - Oberdörfer, Sebastian
A1  - von Mammen, Sebastian
A1  - Latoschik, Marc Erich
A1  - Lugrin, Birgit
T1  - Joyful adventures and frightening places – designing emotion-inducing virtual environments
JF  - Frontiers in Virtual Reality
N2  - Virtual environments (VEs) can evoke and support emotions, as experienced when playing emotionally arousing games. We theoretically approach the design of fear and joy evoking VEs based on a literature review of empirical studies on virtual and real environments as well as video games’ reviews and content analyses. We define the design space and identify central design elements that evoke specific positive and negative emotions. Based on that, we derive and present guidelines for emotion-inducing VE design with respect to design themes, colors and textures, and lighting configurations. To validate our guidelines in two user studies, we 1) expose participants to 360° videos of VEs designed following the individual guidelines and 2) immerse them in a neutral, positive and negative emotion-inducing VEs combining all respective guidelines in Virtual Reality. The results support our theoretically derived guidelines by revealing significant differences in terms of fear and joy induction.
KW  - virtual reality
KW  - virtual environments
KW  - immersion
KW  - emotions
KW  - design
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-284831
SN  - 2673-4192
VL  - 3
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Oberdörfer, Sebastian
A1  - Heidrich, David
A1  - Birnstiel, Sandra
A1  - Latoschik, Marc Erich
T1  - Enchanted by Your Surrounding? Measuring the Effects of Immersion and Design of Virtual Environments on Decision-Making
JF  - Frontiers in Virtual Reality
N2  - Impaired decision-making leads to the inability to distinguish between advantageous and disadvantageous choices. The impairment of a person’s decision-making is a common goal of gambling games. Given the recent trend of gambling using immersive Virtual Reality it is crucial to investigate the effects of both immersion and the virtual environment (VE) on decision-making. In a novel user study, we measured decision-making using three virtual versions of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT). The versions differed with regard to the degree of immersion and design of the virtual environment. While emotions affect decision-making, we further measured the positive and negative affect of participants. A higher visual angle on a stimulus leads to an increased emotional response. Thus, we kept the visual angle on the Iowa Gambling Task the same between our conditions. Our results revealed no significant impact of immersion or the VE on the IGT. We further found no significant difference between the conditions with regard to positive and negative affect. This suggests that neither the medium used nor the design of the VE causes an impairment of decision-making. However, in combination with a recent study, we provide first evidence that a higher visual angle on the IGT leads to an effect of impairment.
KW  - virtual reality
KW  - virtual environments
KW  - immersion
KW  - decision-making
KW  - iowa gambling task
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-260101
VL  - 2
ER  -