A Qualitative Exploration of Individual Experiences of Environmental Virtual Reality Through the Lens of Psychological Distance
How to increase public engagement in environmental issues is a central question in environmental communication and environmental psychology literatures. Psychological distance (PD) is one potential barrier to public engagement. PD describes the perceptual distance between a person’s experience and a...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.13637105.v1 2023-05-15T17:50:08+02:00 A Qualitative Exploration of Individual Experiences of Environmental Virtual Reality Through the Lens of Psychological Distance Raja, Urooj S. Carrico, Amanda R. 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13637105.v1 https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/A_Qualitative_Exploration_of_Individual_Experiences_of_Environmental_Virtual_Reality_Through_the_Lens_of_Psychological_Distance/13637105/1 unknown Taylor & Francis https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2020.1871052 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13637105 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 CC-BY Neuroscience Ecology FOS Biological sciences Sociology FOS Sociology 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified Science Policy 111714 Mental Health FOS Health sciences Text article-journal Journal contribution ScholarlyArticle 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13637105.v1 https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2020.1871052 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13637105 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z How to increase public engagement in environmental issues is a central question in environmental communication and environmental psychology literatures. Psychological distance (PD) is one potential barrier to public engagement. PD describes the perceptual distance between a person’s experience and an external target. Immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR) have the potential to shrink PD. Yet, we know little about how people perceive and react to an environmental VR experience or about the role that PD plays in these reactions. To address this gap, we use interviews and focus groups to examine how people react to a VR experience about ocean acidification. We find that PD is prevalent in the reactions of VR users, especially first-time users, and that 62% of participants described feeling psychologically close to ocean acidification. Text Ocean acidification DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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How to increase public engagement in environmental issues is a central question in environmental communication and environmental psychology literatures. Psychological distance (PD) is one potential barrier to public engagement. PD describes the perceptual distance between a person’s experience and an external target. Immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR) have the potential to shrink PD. Yet, we know little about how people perceive and react to an environmental VR experience or about the role that PD plays in these reactions. To address this gap, we use interviews and focus groups to examine how people react to a VR experience about ocean acidification. We find that PD is prevalent in the reactions of VR users, especially first-time users, and that 62% of participants described feeling psychologically close to ocean acidification. |
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A Qualitative Exploration of Individual Experiences of Environmental Virtual Reality Through the Lens of Psychological Distance |
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