{"id":1918,"date":"2022-03-31T14:12:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T12:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=1918"},"modified":"2022-04-06T07:31:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T05:31:34","slug":"lapparent-alvarez-examining-visual-cues-for-an-auditory-selective-attention-paradigm-in-virtual-reality","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/event\/lapparent-alvarez-examining-visual-cues-for-an-auditory-selective-attention-paradigm-in-virtual-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Lapparent Alvarez: Examining visual cues for an auditory selective attention paradigm in virtual reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last few years, virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a new technology that is allowing <\/span>scientific research to investigate topics from another perspective. This is due to the possibility of <\/span>creating more realistic scenarios in which all the variables are controlled. Thus, the conclusions <\/span>taken from such research are more consistent since the environment can be much more controlled <\/span>than without using VR. This thesis researched and validated a new visual cue in an experiment<\/span> on auditory selective attention (ASA) experiment in virtual reality. The aim was to see how<\/span> including a visual cue that participants had to search for affected their ASA, which would be a<\/span> more realistic situation in a class scenario. In an already validated VR environment, changes were<\/span> made to fit the purpose of this project. Four avatars were situated in four different directions<\/span> in a classroom (front, left, back and right). One of the four avatars would clap at every trial,<\/span> which would indicate the direction from which the auditory stimulus would later come from,<\/span> and the participant had to search for it. When they did, they had to press a button, and then<\/span> auditory stimuli coming from the avatar\u2019s direction would play. Another stimulus would play<\/span> simultaneously from another direction to act as a distractor. Participants had then to indicate<\/span> a characteristic of the target stimulus.<\/span> To see how the participants\u2019 strategy worked in this<\/span> new environment, the time it took to find the cue and the head tracking of the headset were<\/span> saved during the experiment. The experiment was done with 10 participants. The experiment <\/span>worked and proved that not all participants had the same strategy when searching for the cue.<\/span> Participants would look at the cue for the front and sides positions when hearing the auditory<\/span> stimulus. Whereas for the back cue, participants, when detecting that the avatar on the back was<\/span> the one clapping, the participants would put themselves in a more comfortable position looking <\/span>at the front to hear the auditory stimuli. Most participants\u2019 results were in a similar range, but <\/span>there were different outcomes for two participants. One of them suffered cybersickness, and the<\/span> other participant looked closer to the frontal position than any other participant.<\/span><\/p>\n

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