Influence of Hand Tracking in Immersive Virtual Reality for Memory Assessment

Few works analyze the parameters inherent to immersive virtual reality (IVR) in applications for memory evaluation. Specifically, hand tracking adds to the immersion of the system, placing the user in the first person with full awareness of the position of their hands. Thus, this work addresses the...

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Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health 2023-03, Vol.20 (5), p.4609
Main Authors: Varela-Aldás, José, Buele, Jorge, López, Irene, Palacios-Navarro, Guillermo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activities of Daily Living
Adolescent
Adult
Alzheimer's disease
Analysis
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Computer applications
Disease prevention
Evaluation
Executive function
Experimentation
Hand
Humans
Immersive virtual reality
Memory
Middle Aged
Older people
Rehabilitation
Response time
Stroke
Upper Extremity
Usability
User satisfaction
User-Computer Interface
Virtual memory systems
Virtual Reality
Young Adult
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Summary:Few works analyze the parameters inherent to immersive virtual reality (IVR) in applications for memory evaluation. Specifically, hand tracking adds to the immersion of the system, placing the user in the first person with full awareness of the position of their hands. Thus, this work addresses the influence of hand tracking in memory assessment with IVR systems. For this, an application based on activities of daily living was developed, where the user must remember the location of the elements. The data collected by the application are the accuracy of the answers and the response time; the participants are 20 healthy subjects who pass the MoCA test with an age range between 18 to 60 years of age; the application was evaluated with classic controllers and with the hand tracking of the Oculus Quest 2. After the experimentation, the participants carried out presence (PQ), usability (UMUX), and satisfaction (USEQ) tests. The results indicate no difference with statistical significance between both experiments; controller experiments have 7.08% higher accuracy and 0.27 ys. faster response time. Contrary to expectations, presence was 1.3% lower for hand tracking, and usability (0.18%) and satisfaction (1.43%) had similar results. The findings indicate no evidence to determine better conditions in the evaluation of memory in this case of IVR with hand tracking.
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph20054609