A direct comparison of presence levels in text-based and graphics-based virtual environments

Authors:
David Nunez;Edwin Blake
Affiliations:
University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa;University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Computer graphics, virtual Reality, visualisation and interaction in Africa
Year:
2003

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Abstract

We present results from an experiment (n=78) which used two presence measures to directly compare presence in text-based and graphics-based VEs of two levels of quality. The results show that text-based VEs produce less presence than graphics-based VEs, but the actual difference is less than 20%. This finding has implications for those wishing to implement VEs in impoverished devices or those working towards understanding the cognitive processing of VEs.