Posts under ‘Papers & Books’

Direttamente  da a VR Geek Blog, questo interessante aggiornamento da Laval
 
Lutz Jancke, from the Neuropsychology lab of Univeristy of Zurich, made an amazing presentation about the reality of VR to our brain. The short answer is for the brain, VR is just another reality; the brain only interprets inputs from its senses and experience, and [...]

Fabien Girardin, da 7.5th Floor, ha presentato un suo interessante lavoro sulla co-evoluzione dei tassisti e dei sistemi di navigazione “in-car”.
Tempo fa, a Milano, ho visto in un taxi le informazioni sulla tariffazione visualizzate nello specchietto retrovisore centrale… oltre alla curiosità tecnologica, la prima impressione era di un’aumentata “confidenza” con il guidatore, per via dei [...]

 
Disembodiment in Online Social Interaction: Impact of Online Chat on Social Support and Psychosocial Well-Being
Cyberpsychology & Behaviour, Jun 2007, Vol. 10, No. 3 : 475 -477
Seok Kang, Ph.D.
This study investigates how disembodiment—that is, transcendence of body constraints in cyberspace—in online chat affects social psychological well-being. The results demonstrate that disembodiment [...]

 
Field dependency and the sense of object-presence in haptic virtual environments.
Cyberpsychol Behav. 2007 Apr;10(2):243-51
Authors: Hecht D, Reiner M
Virtual environment (VE) users often report having a sense of being present in the virtual place or a sense that the virtual object is present in their environment. This sense of presence [...]

 
Randomized controlled trial of virtual reality simulator training: transfer to live patients.
Am J Surg. 2007 Aug;194(2):205-11
Authors: Park J, MacRae H, Musselman LJ, Rossos P, Hamstra SJ, Wolman S, Reznick RK
BACKGROUND: New Residency Review Committee requirements in general surgery require 50 colonoscopies. Simulators have been widely suggested to help prepare [...]

Alcuni articoli interessanti, trovati questa settimana:
Characteristics of personal space during obstacle circumvention in physical and virtual environments.Author: Gerin-Lajoie M, Richards CL, Fung J, McFadyen BJ.Date: 2007-05-01Gait Posture. 2007 May 16; [Epub ahead of print][Link]
Do medical students respond empathetically to a virtual patient?Author: Deladisma AM, Cohen M, Stevens A, Wagner P, Lok B, Bernard [...]