The Use of Virtual Reality as a Potential Restorative Environment in School During Recess
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Digital Transformation and Global Society - 5th International Conference, DTGS 2020, Revised Selected Papers, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Volume 1242
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Previous research has found out that simulated, Virtual Reality (VR)-based forests can bring equal or even higher restorative effects than real forests. In this study, a Virtual Reality (VR)-based forest was created in order to compare whether VR-based forest can possess restorative effects in the context of primary school, and how the possible effects compare to restorative effects of a normal recess or to a situation when there is no recess at all. The effects were measured using Restorative Outcome Scale (ROS) and problem-solving tasks after the intervention. The results showed that VR-based forest had the highest restorative effect. There was a significant difference between VR-forest and no recess-groups, but no statistical difference between VR-forest and normal recess-groups. Future research avenues and implications of virtual forests are discussed.Description
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Lähtevänoja , A , Holopainen , J , Mattila , O & Parvinen , P 2020 , The Use of Virtual Reality as a Potential Restorative Environment in School During Recess . in D A Alexandrov , A V Boukhanovsky , A V Chugunov , Y Kabanov , O Koltsova & I Musabirov (eds) , Digital Transformation and Global Society - 5th International Conference, DTGS 2020, Revised Selected Papers . Communications in Computer and Information Science , vol. 1242 , Springer , pp. 436-446 , International Conference on Digital Transformation and Global Society , St. Petersburg , Russian Federation , 17/06/2020 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65218-0_32