The impact of a self-avatar on cognitive load in immersive virtual reality

• Published in: Proceedings of the Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems pp. 67 - 76
• Main Authors: Steed, Anthony, Ye Pan, Zisch, Fiona, Steptoe, William
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.03.2016
• Subjects: and virtual realities; augmented; Avatars; Cognition; Estimation; H.5.1 [Multimedia Information Systems]: Artificial; Solid modeling; Virtual environments; Visualization
• ISSN: 2375-5334
• DOI: 10.1109/VR.2016.7504689

The use of a self-avatar inside an immersive virtual reality system has been shown to have important effects on presence, interaction and perception of space. Based on studies from linguistics and cognition, in this paper we demonstrate that a self-avatar may aid the participant's cognitive pro...