Assessing the learning and transfer of gaze behaviours in immersive virtual reality
dc.contributor.author | Harris, DJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Hardcastle, KJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Wilson, MR | |
dc.contributor.author | Vine, SJ | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-16T08:47:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-02-04 | |
dc.description.abstract | Virtual reality (VR) has clear potential for improving simulation training in many industries. Yet, methods for testing the fidelity, validity and training efficacy of VR environments are, in general, lagging behind their adoption. There is limited understanding of how readily skills learned in VR will transfer, and what features of training design will facilitate effective transfer. Two potentially important elements are the psychological fidelity of the environment, and the stimulus correspondence with the transfer context. In this study, we examined the effectiveness of VR for training police room searching procedures, and assessed the corresponding development of perceptual-cognitive skill through eye-tracking indices of search efficiency. Participants (n = 54) were assigned to a VR rule-learning and search training task (FTG), a search only training task (SG) or a no-practice control group (CG). Both FTG and SG developed more efficient search behaviours during the training task, as indexed by increases in saccade size and reductions in search rate. The FTG performed marginally better than the CG on a novel VR transfer test, but no better than the SG. More efficient gaze behaviours learned during training were not, however, evident during the transfer test. These findings demonstrate how VR can be used to develop perceptual-cognitive skills, but also highlight the challenges of achieving transfer of training. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 4 February 2021 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10055-021-00501-w | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ICRF1819/2/32 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/125137 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://osf.io/5n9j3/ | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2021. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dc.subject | fidelity | en_GB |
dc.subject | police | en_GB |
dc.subject | policing | en_GB |
dc.subject | training | en_GB |
dc.subject | validity | en_GB |
dc.subject | VR | en_GB |
dc.title | Assessing the learning and transfer of gaze behaviours in immersive virtual reality | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-03-16T08:47:53Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1359-4338 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Springer via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Availability of data and materials: All data are available online from the Open Science Framework [https://osf.io/5n9j3/]. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Virtual Reality | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-01-13 | |
exeter.funder | ::Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-02-04 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-03-16T08:46:26Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-03-16T08:48:05Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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