The Illusion of Presence in Immersive Virtual Reality during an fMRI Brain Scan Export

@article{citeulike:6079751, abstract = {The essence of immersive virtual reality (VR) is the illusion it gives users that they are inside the computer-generated virtual environment. This unusually strong illusion is theorized to contribute to the successful pain reduction observed in burn patients who go into VR during woundcare (www.vrpain.com) and to successful VR exposure therapy for phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The present study demonstrated for the first time that subjects could experience a strong illusion of presence during an fMRI despite the constraints of the fMRI magnet bore (i.e., immobilized head and loud ambient noise).}, author = {Hoffman, Hunter G. and Richards, Todd and Coda, Barbara and Richards, Anne and Sharar, Sam R.}, citeulike-article-id = {6079751}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/109493103321640310}, doi = {10.1089/109493103321640310}, issn = {1094-9313}, journal = {CyberPsychology \& Behavior}, keywords = {brain\_scan, fmri, presence, virtual\_environments}, month = {April}, number = {2}, pages = {127--131}, posted-at = {2009-11-06 01:51:45}, priority = {2}, title = {The Illusion of Presence in Immersive Virtual Reality during an fMRI Brain Scan}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/109493103321640310}, volume = {6}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6079751 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6079751 N2 - The essence of immersive virtual reality (VR) is the illusion it gives users that they are inside the computer-generated virtual environment. This unusually strong illusion is theorized to contribute to the successful pain reduction observed in burn patients who go into VR during woundcare (www.vrpain.com) and to successful VR exposure therapy for phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The present study demonstrated for the first time that subjects could experience a strong illusion of presence during an fMRI despite the constraints of the fMRI magnet bore (i.e., immobilized head and loud ambient noise). IS - 2 JF - CyberPsychology & Behavior SN - 1094-9313 EP - 131 TI - The Illusion of Presence in Immersive Virtual Reality during an fMRI Brain Scan VL - 6 SP - 127 KW - brain_scan KW - fmri KW - presence KW - virtual_environments AU - Hoffman, Hunter AU - Richards, Todd AU - Coda, Barbara AU - Richards, Anne AU - Sharar, Sam PY - 2003/04// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/109493103321640310 ER -