A Networked Desktop Virtual Reality Setup for Decision Science and Navigation Experiments with Multiple Participants.

ABSTRACT: Investigating the interactions among multiple participants is a challenge for researchers from various disciplines, including the decision sciences and spatial cognition. With a local area network and dedicated software platform, experimenters can efficiently monitor the behavior of the participants that are simultaneously immersed in a desktop virtual environment and digitalize the collected data. These capabilities allow for experimental designs in spatial cognition and navigation research that would be difficult (if not impossible) to conduct in the real world. Possible experimental variations include stress during an evacuation, cooperative and competitive search tasks, and other contextual factors that may influence emergent crowd behavior. However, such a laboratory requires maintena

SUBMITTER: Zhao H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6231909 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature