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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ferguson, Chris
• van den Broek, Egon L
• van Oostendorp, Herre
• de Redelijkheid, Sam
• Giezeman, Geert-Jan

Titel

Virtual Reality Aids Game Navigation: Evidence from the Hypertext Lostness Measure

Ist Teil von

• Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking, 2020-09, Vol.23 (9), p.635

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Instead of traditional free movement, node-based movement can be used in virtual reality (VR) games. In node-based movement systems, players navigate by jumping to set locations. Node-based movement is similar to hypertext navigation. We show that the hypertext lostness measure can be used as a game analytic to evaluate navigational efficiency. In a randomized controlled trial with 25 adolescent participants, an immersive desktop game environment and a VR game environment were compared on the transmission of in-game educational content and navigational efficiency. Results show that the hypertext lostness measure is also valuable outside its original hypertext domain: in VR. VR did not improve players' retention of factual knowledge, but did significantly improve players' spatial knowledge and navigational efficiency. We conclude (a) the hypertext lostness measure is also valuable for node-based VR games and (b) VR games add to spatial learning, even when compared with already immersive desktop games.