Imagine That! Imaginative Suggestibility Affects Presence in Virtual Reality

Crescent Jicol; Christopher Clarke; Emilia Tor; Hiu Lam  Yip; Jinha Yoon; Chris Bevan; Hugh Bowden; Elisa Brann; Kirsten Cater; Richard Cole; Quinton Deeley; Esther  Eidinow; Eamonn O'Neill; Christof Lutteroth; Michael Proulx

doi:10.1145/3544548.3581212

Imagine That! Imaginative Suggestibility Affects Presence in Virtual Reality

Crescent Jicol, Christopher Clarke, Emilia Tor, Hiu Lam Yip, Jinha Yoon, Chris Bevan, Hugh Bowden, Elisa Brann, Kirsten Cater, Richard Cole, Quinton Deeley, Esther Eidinow, Eamonn O'Neill, Christof Lutteroth, Michael Proulx

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Abstract

Personality characteristics can affect how much presence an individual experiences in virtual reality, and researchers have explored how it may be possible to prime users to increase their sense of presence. A personality characteristic that has yet to be explored in the VR literature is imaginative suggestibility, the ability of an individual to successfully experience an imaginary scenario as if it were real. In this paper, we explore how suggestibility and priming affect presence when consulting an ancient oracle in VR as part of an educational experience - a common VR application. We show for the first time how imaginative suggestibility is a major factor which affects presence and emotions experienced in VR, while priming cues have no effect on participants' (n=128) user experience, contrasting results from prior work. We consider the impacts of these findings for VR design and provide guidelines based on our results.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '23
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York, United States
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450394215
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581212
Publication status	Published - 19 Apr 2023
Event	2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023 - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 23 Apr 2023 → 28 Apr 2023

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Conference

Conference	2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	23/04/23 → 28/04/23

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported and funded by The Virtual Reality Oracle Project (VRO; AH/T004673/1) and the Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research and Applications (CAMERA 2.0; EP/T022523/1) at the University of Bath.

Keywords

imaginative suggestibility
presence
priming
virtual reality

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Software

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This is the author’s version of the work. The definitive Version of Record was published in Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany, https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581212.
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Jicol, C., Clarke, C., Tor, E., Yip, H. L., Yoon, J., Bevan, C., Bowden, H., Brann, E., Cater, K., Cole, R., Deeley, Q., Eidinow, E., O'Neill, E., Lutteroth, C., & Proulx, M. (2023). Imagine That! Imaginative Suggestibility Affects Presence in Virtual Reality. In CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 397 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581212

Imagine That! Imaginative Suggestibility Affects Presence in Virtual Reality. / Jicol, Crescent ; Clarke, Christopher; Tor, Emilia et al.
CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. 397 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Jicol, C , Clarke, C, Tor, E, Yip, HL, Yoon, J, Bevan, C, Bowden, H, Brann, E, Cater, K, Cole, R, Deeley, Q, Eidinow, E, O'Neill, E , Lutteroth, C & Proulx, M 2023, Imagine That! Imaginative Suggestibility Affects Presence in Virtual Reality. in CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 397, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, United States, 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023, Hamburg, Germany, 23/04/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581212

Jicol C , Clarke C, Tor E, Yip HL, Yoon J, Bevan C et al. Imagine That! Imaginative Suggestibility Affects Presence in Virtual Reality. In CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. 2023. 397. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/3544548.3581212

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Imagine That! Imaginative Suggestibility Affects Presence in Virtual Reality

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