Bogon, Johanna and Hoegerl, Julian and Kocur, Martin and Wolff, Christian and Henze, Niels and Riemer, Martin (2023) Validating virtual reality for time perception research: Virtual reality changes expectations about the duration of physical processes, but not the sense of time. BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS. ISSN 1554-351X, 1554-3528
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Immersive virtual reality (VR) provides a versatile method for investigating human time perception, because it allows the manipulation and control of relevant variables (e.g., the speed of environmental changes) that cannot be modified in the real world. However, an important premise for interpreting the results of VR studies, namely that the method itself does not affect time perception, has received little attention. Here we tested this assumption by comparing timing performance in a real environment and a VR scenario. Participants performed two timing tasks, requiring the production of intervals defined either by numerical values ("eight seconds") or by a physical process ("the time it takes for a bottle to run out when turned over"). We found that the experience of immersive VR exclusively altered judgments about the duration of physical processes, whereas judgments about the duration of abstract time units were unaffected. These results demonstrate that effects of VR on timing performance are not driven by changes in time perception itself, but rather by altered expectations regarding the duration of physical processes. The present study validates the use of VR in time perception research and strengthens the interpretation of changed timing behaviour induced by manipulations within VR.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | EXPERIENCE; COLOR; Time perception; Time production; Virtual reality |
| Subjects: | 000 Computer science, information & general works > 004 Computer science |
| Divisions: | Languages and Literatures > Institut für Information und Medien, Sprache und Kultur (I:IMSK) > Lehrstuhl für Medieninformatik (Prof. Dr. Christian Wolff) Informatics and Data Science > Lehrstuhl für Medieninformatik (Prof. Dr. Christian Wolff) Languages and Literatures > Institut für Information und Medien, Sprache und Kultur (I:IMSK) > Professur für Medieninformatik (Prof. Dr. Niels Henze) Informatics and Data Science > Professur für Medieninformatik (Prof. Dr. Niels Henze) Informatics and Data Science > Lehrstuhl für Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion (Prof. Dr. Johanna Bogon) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Mar 2024 09:26 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Mar 2024 09:26 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/59465 |
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