Does the vividness of imagination influence illusory self-motion in virtual reality?

Lars Kooijman, Houshyar Asadi, Shady Mohamed, Saeid Nahavandi

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Abstract

The illusory sensation of self-motion is defined as vection. Vection research can help enhance Virtual Reality applications and improve simulator fidelity as vection appears to be a desired sensation in motion simulators. The experience of vection can be modulated by cognitive factors and potentially personal traits, such as the vividness of imagination. Previous research investigating the relationship between auditory vection and kinesthetic imagery presented conflicting findings. However, the relationship between visually-induced vection and imagination has not been investigated. Herein we investigated the relationship between kinesthetic imagery and unimodal visual and bimodal visual-auditory vection. Twenty-nine participants were visually and audibly immersed in virtual environments with varying degrees of ecological relevance wherein they reported on their vection experience. No differences were found for vection intensity and latency measures between participants with high and low kinesthetic imagery. We conclude that imagery does not appear to play a role in the experience of visually-induced vection.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)
EditorsAnthony Maciejewski
Place of PublicationUSA
PublisherIEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages1065-1071
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781665452588
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
EventIEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 2022 - Prague, Czechia
Duration: 9 Oct 202212 Oct 2022
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9945068/proceeding (Proceedings)

Publication series

NameConference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Volume2022-October
ISSN (Print)1062-922X

Conference

ConferenceIEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 2022
Abbreviated titleSMC 2022
Country/TerritoryCzechia
CityPrague
Period9/10/2212/10/22
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Keywords

  • Kinesthetic Imagery
  • Optic Flow
  • Train Illusion
  • Vection
  • Vection Intensity.

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