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Exploring Experiences of Virtual Reality among Young and Older Adults in a Subway Fire Scenario: a Pilot Study

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VRST '19: Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

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We report a pilot study investigating experiences of virtual reality (VR) among young and older adults in a subway fire scenario. We created VR environments in subway fire scenarios and ran an experiment by asking 5 young and 5 older adults to explore VR environments. After the experiment, participants were asked to fill out a survey questionnaire to report their feelings. Additionally, we conducted semi-structured interviews with participants to understand challenges they faced while exploring VR environments. We found that compared with young adults, older adults tended to be different during the process of evacuating a subway station in virtual reality. We suggest design opportunities for creating VR environments for more effective training of older adults.

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VRST '19: Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

November 2019

498 pages

ISBN:9781450370011

DOI:10.1145/3359996

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Tomas Trescak
Western Sydney University
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Simeon Simoff
Western Sydney University
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Deborah Richards
Macquarie University
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Anton Bogdanovych
Western Sydney University
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Thierry Duval
IMT Atlantique
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Torsten Kuhlen
RWTH Aachen University
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Huyen Nguyen
University of New South Wales
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Shigeo Morishima
University of Waseda
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Yuichi Itoh
University of Osaka
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Richard Skarbez
La Trobe
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Anton Bogdanovych
Western Sydney University
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Martin Masek
Edith Cowan University

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