Studying the Mental Effort in Virtual Versus Real Environments
Is there an effect of Virtual Reality Head-Mounted Display on the user's mental effort? In this paper, we compare the mental effort in virtual versus in real environments. An experiment (N = 27) was conducted to assess the effect of being immersed in a virtual environment using an HMD on the user's mental effort while performing a standardized cognitive task (the well-known N-back task, with three levels of difficulty, N ∈ 1,2,3). We also explored the impact of performing a dual task (i.e., sitting versus walking) in both environments on mental effort.
Mar 6, 2019
