ERVR 2023: Immersion, presence and behavioral validity in virtual and augmented environments
This presentation was delivered at the Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality conference (16-19 January 2023) held in San Francisco, CA USA. For more information see: http://www.electronicimaging.org
Title: Immersion, presence and behavioral validity in virtual and augmented environments [ERVR-216]
Speaker: Daniel R. Mestre, CNRS and Aix-Marseille University (France)
Abstract: Virtual (or Mixed) Reality, as opposed to previous experimental situations, has promoted realistic (also called ecological) research conditions, while enabling researchers to have precise control of these conditions. However, precisely because more realistic and complex situations can be experimentally investigated, important questions arise concerning the validity and representativeness of observed behavior, with reference to a real situation. This problem involves many aspects, such as the physical fidelity of the setup (including sensorial rendering and interfaces), but also human and contextual factors. Fundamental and applied research are both concerned. We will review past and ongoing research, aiming at evaluating to what extent users’ behavior in an immersive interactive context can be generalized to real situations.
Biography: Daniel R. Mestre is a senior researcher in the Institute of Movement Sciences (https://ism.univ-amu.fr/ ) in Marseilles. He is Head of the Mediterranean Virtual Reality Center (www.crvm.eu) and former President of the Association for xReality. His major research interests concern visuo-spatial behavior, psychophysical and neuropsychological approaches to active information processing. Mixed Reality is used as an experimental tool to understand the sensorimotor and cognitive determinants of our presence to the world, in both fundamental and applied domains.
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