@inbook{b3df56b1c0de4af0bfd36e8c72d4b5bb,
title = "Imagine That! Imaginative Suggestibility Affects Presence in Virtual Reality",
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.",
keywords = "imaginative suggestibility, presence, priming, virtual reality",
author = "Crescent Jicol and Christopher Clarke and Emilia Tor and Yip, {Hiu Lam} and Jinha Yoon and Chris Bevan and Hugh Bowden and Elisa Brann and Kirsten Cater and Richard Cole and Quinton Deeley and Esther Eidinow and Eamonn O'Neill and Christof Lutteroth and Proulx, {Michael J.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 ACM.; 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023 ; Conference date: 23-04-2023 Through 28-04-2023",
year = "2023",
month = apr,
day = "19",
doi = "10.1145/3544548.3581212",
language = "English",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
booktitle = "CHI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
}