TY - JOUR
T1 - Cycling in virtual reality
T2 - modelling behaviour in an immersive environment
AU - Bogacz, Martyna
AU - Hess, Stephane
AU - F. Choudhury, Charisma
AU - Calastri, Chiara
AU - Mushtaq, Faisal
AU - Awais, Muhammad
AU - Nazemi, Mohsen
AU - A.B. van Eggermond, Michael
AU - Erath, Alexander
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Immersive technologies in transport research are gaining popularity, allowing for data collection in a controlled dynamic setting. Nonetheless, their ecological validity is still to be established hence their use in mathematical modelling in a transport setting has been scarce. We aim to fill this gap by conducting a study of cycling behaviour where non-immersive and immersive presentation methods are used in a virtual reality setting. The results confirm our hypothesis that participants behave differently when shown a choice scenario in non-immersive and immersive settings. In particular, cycling in an immersive setting is characterised by a higher degree of engagement. We also captured neural activity during task performance. We focussed on oscillations in the alpha (α) band where we found increased suppression in this signal in response to the immersive condition relative to the non-immersive. These results complement the behavioural findings and indicate that immersive environments may increase levels of task-engagement.
AB - Immersive technologies in transport research are gaining popularity, allowing for data collection in a controlled dynamic setting. Nonetheless, their ecological validity is still to be established hence their use in mathematical modelling in a transport setting has been scarce. We aim to fill this gap by conducting a study of cycling behaviour where non-immersive and immersive presentation methods are used in a virtual reality setting. The results confirm our hypothesis that participants behave differently when shown a choice scenario in non-immersive and immersive settings. In particular, cycling in an immersive setting is characterised by a higher degree of engagement. We also captured neural activity during task performance. We focussed on oscillations in the alpha (α) band where we found increased suppression in this signal in response to the immersive condition relative to the non-immersive. These results complement the behavioural findings and indicate that immersive environments may increase levels of task-engagement.
KW - cycling
KW - EEG
KW - risk
KW - Road user behaviour
KW - virtual reality
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U2 - 10.1080/19427867.2020.1745358
DO - 10.1080/19427867.2020.1745358
M3 - Article (journal)
AN - SCOPUS:85084367844
VL - 13
SP - 608
EP - 622
JO - Transportation Letters
JF - Transportation Letters
SN - 1942-7867
IS - 8
ER -