The pleasure of being (there?): an explorative study into the effects of presence and identification on the enjoyment of an interactive theatrical performance using omni-directional video
Jan Decock, Jan VAN LOOY, Lizzy Bleumers, Philippe Bekaert · Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) · 2011
In this study, we explore how participants in an immersive theatrical performance perceive their role in the virtual environment (VE) and the effects of this perception on how they experience the performance as a whole. Using a quasi-experimental 2 x 2 design we manipulated narrative and task-based search to explore effects on spatial presence, social presence, identification and enjoyment. Results show that the effect of spatial presence on enjoyment of the performance is entirely mediated by identification with the role of the self in the VE. This could have interesting consequences for the experience of more narrative VE’s and suggests that the role of identification is something to explore further in future presence research.