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Two new virtual reality tasks for the assessment of spatial orientation Preliminary results of tolerability, sense of presence and usability

Spatial orientation is a cognitive domain frequently impaired in Alzheimer's Disease and can be one of its earliest symptoms. OBJECTIVE: This paper describes the results of tolerability, sense of presence and usability of two immersive virtual reality tasks for the assessment of spatial orienta...

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Autores principales: da Costa, Raquel Quimas Molina, Pompeu, José Eduardo, de Mello, Daniel Donadio, Moretto, Emerson, Rodrigues, Fernanda Zillig, dos Santos, Michelle Didone, Nitrini, Ricardo, Morganti, Francesca, Brucki, Sonia Maria Dozzi
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Publicado: Associação de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6022991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29988338
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-57642018dn12-020013
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author da Costa, Raquel Quimas Molina
Pompeu, José Eduardo
de Mello, Daniel Donadio
Moretto, Emerson
Rodrigues, Fernanda Zillig
dos Santos, Michelle Didone
Nitrini, Ricardo
Morganti, Francesca
Brucki, Sonia Maria Dozzi
author_facet da Costa, Raquel Quimas Molina
Pompeu, José Eduardo
de Mello, Daniel Donadio
Moretto, Emerson
Rodrigues, Fernanda Zillig
dos Santos, Michelle Didone
Nitrini, Ricardo
Morganti, Francesca
Brucki, Sonia Maria Dozzi
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description Spatial orientation is a cognitive domain frequently impaired in Alzheimer's Disease and can be one of its earliest symptoms. OBJECTIVE: This paper describes the results of tolerability, sense of presence and usability of two immersive virtual reality tasks for the assessment of spatial orientation, using VR headset in adults. METHODS: 31 healthy adults recruited from university and the local community performed two experimental immersive virtual reality tasks of spatial orientation: the SOIVET-Maze for the assessment of allocentric to egocentric spatial abilities and the SOIVET-Route for the assessment of spatial memory and landmark recognition. Participants completed questionnaires about sense of presence, cybersickness symptoms, technology use profile and motion sickness history. Usability measures were assessed by spontaneous feedback from participants. RESULTS: All participants were able to understand the task instructions and how to interact with the system. Both tasks seemed to induce a strong sense of presence, as assessed by the Witmer and Singer Presence Questionnaires (M=128 and 143 for SOIVET-Maze and SOIVET-Route, respectively). The SOIVET-Route had a small numeric advantage over the SOIVET-Maze tolerability scores assessed by the Cybersickness Questionnaire (M=4.19, SD=5.576 and M=3.52, SD=6.418 for SOIVET-Maze and SOIVET-Route respectively). Also, there were no drop-outs on the SOIVET-Route due to tolerability issues, unlike the SOIVET-Maze, which had two drop-outs. However, this difference was not statistically significant (Z= -.901, p= 0.368, Wilcoxon signed-rank test).
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spelling pubmed-60229912018-07-09 Two new virtual reality tasks for the assessment of spatial orientation Preliminary results of tolerability, sense of presence and usability da Costa, Raquel Quimas Molina Pompeu, José Eduardo de Mello, Daniel Donadio Moretto, Emerson Rodrigues, Fernanda Zillig dos Santos, Michelle Didone Nitrini, Ricardo Morganti, Francesca Brucki, Sonia Maria Dozzi Dement Neuropsychol Original Article Spatial orientation is a cognitive domain frequently impaired in Alzheimer's Disease and can be one of its earliest symptoms. OBJECTIVE: This paper describes the results of tolerability, sense of presence and usability of two immersive virtual reality tasks for the assessment of spatial orientation, using VR headset in adults. METHODS: 31 healthy adults recruited from university and the local community performed two experimental immersive virtual reality tasks of spatial orientation: the SOIVET-Maze for the assessment of allocentric to egocentric spatial abilities and the SOIVET-Route for the assessment of spatial memory and landmark recognition. Participants completed questionnaires about sense of presence, cybersickness symptoms, technology use profile and motion sickness history. Usability measures were assessed by spontaneous feedback from participants. RESULTS: All participants were able to understand the task instructions and how to interact with the system. Both tasks seemed to induce a strong sense of presence, as assessed by the Witmer and Singer Presence Questionnaires (M=128 and 143 for SOIVET-Maze and SOIVET-Route, respectively). The SOIVET-Route had a small numeric advantage over the SOIVET-Maze tolerability scores assessed by the Cybersickness Questionnaire (M=4.19, SD=5.576 and M=3.52, SD=6.418 for SOIVET-Maze and SOIVET-Route respectively). Also, there were no drop-outs on the SOIVET-Route due to tolerability issues, unlike the SOIVET-Maze, which had two drop-outs. However, this difference was not statistically significant (Z= -.901, p= 0.368, Wilcoxon signed-rank test). Associação de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6022991/ /pubmed/29988338 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-57642018dn12-020013 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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da Costa, Raquel Quimas Molina
Pompeu, José Eduardo
de Mello, Daniel Donadio
Moretto, Emerson
Rodrigues, Fernanda Zillig
dos Santos, Michelle Didone
Nitrini, Ricardo
Morganti, Francesca
Brucki, Sonia Maria Dozzi
Two new virtual reality tasks for the assessment of spatial orientation Preliminary results of tolerability, sense of presence and usability
title Two new virtual reality tasks for the assessment of spatial orientation Preliminary results of tolerability, sense of presence and usability
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title_fullStr Two new virtual reality tasks for the assessment of spatial orientation Preliminary results of tolerability, sense of presence and usability
title_full_unstemmed Two new virtual reality tasks for the assessment of spatial orientation Preliminary results of tolerability, sense of presence and usability
title_short Two new virtual reality tasks for the assessment of spatial orientation Preliminary results of tolerability, sense of presence and usability
title_sort two new virtual reality tasks for the assessment of spatial orientation preliminary results of tolerability, sense of presence and usability
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6022991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29988338
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-57642018dn12-020013
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