As virtual reality (VR) becomes increasingly common in education, a significant share of students experience cybersickness during immersive sessions. This paper presents a framework for assessing cybersickness and pre-configuring VR applications for...
Extended reality (XR) increasingly supports training and cognitive assessment, yet the age sensitivity of its interaction techniques is unclear. This study examined age, digital literacy, and interaction modality as correlates of psychomotor and cogn...
This paper presents findings from a mixed-methods study whose aim was to elicit requirements for a Future Museum ecosystem designed to connect citizen-curated museums, collections, assets, and artefacts with connected heritage experiences, including...
Educational virtual worlds and metaverse environments are increasingly utilized to foster immersive and experiential learning in higher education. However, their instructional efficacy depends not only on visual fidelity and presence, but fundamental...
Parents and primary carers often shape whether Autistic people access, trial, continue, or avoid virtual reality (VR), yet parent-focused evidence on family-level VR adoption remains limited. This exploratory, cross-sectional survey examined parent a...
Smart-city infrastructure is increasingly operated through cyber–physical systems that combine embedded sensing, edge computing, communication networks, automation platforms, and digital-twin environments. The emerging industrial metaverse exte...
Multifunctional material systems increasingly combine several active phases, including photocatalysts, magnetic phases, adsorbents, controlled-release agents, and antimicrobial oxides, within a single encapsulating matrix. This paper presents an augm...
This paper presents the design and formative evaluation of English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) lesson prototypes conducted within immersive virtual environments (IVEs) and reports qualitative insights derived from this Research through Design (RtD) p...
Maintaining balance while performing secondary tasks is essential for daily life. The interplay between motor control and cognitive processes during dual tasks remains equivocal, characterized by mixed findings across studies. This pilot study implem...
Conventional fire-safety awareness campaigns built on brochures, leaflets, and instructional videos have shown limited success in developing transferable hazard-recognition skills, and simply moving this content into a virtual reality (VR) headset do...
Fibromyalgia is a chronic disorder characterized by widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances, cognitive dysfunction, and psychological symptoms. This randomized controlled trial evaluated whether exercise delivered through immersive virtual reali...
Digital twin technologies provide new opportunities for visualizing, analyzing, and managing complex physical systems; however, effective methods are needed to transform digital twin data into immersive environments that support human interaction and...
This work details the design, technical deployment, and empirical validation of X-MAIN (eXtended Reality for Maintenance and Inspection Training), an Extended Reality (XR) environment designed for preventive maintenance and safety protocols in indust...
True-Context (TContext) is a gamified VR platform for fire hazard recognition; empirical evidence shows it outperforms non-contextual VR delivery, but its theoretical positioning relative to established learning frameworks remains unarticulated. This...
The need for efficiency in radiology has been made clear and augmented reality (AR) has the potential to address this by aiding with issues around irregular lighting conditions impacting the accuracy of reports, while also speeding up the process wit...
Immersive interactive experiences like virtual field trips are increasingly popular in K-12 education, yet they often position youth as consumers. This paper details a design-based-research approach to developing a learning sequence that empowers stu...
Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) has become an essential outcome of language education, yet many learners cannot access study-abroad or face-to-face exchange programs because of financial, logistical, and geographical constraints. Virtual...
While the value of XR has been broadly demonstrated in the literature, there is comparatively less empirical work seeking to establish where AR could effectively be placed within the training pathway. This is particularly true in radiology, where tra...
Immersive virtual reality (VR) is increasingly used in higher education, yet evidence on how perceived presence, fidelity, immersion and usability co-occur in authentic learning objects—and how they relate to prior experience and gender—r...
Racial bias emerges early in life: explicit bias is often observable in childhood but tends to decline with age, whereas implicit bias typically persists through adolescence, shaped by stereotypes, peer dynamics, and identity development. Given adole...
Bruxism-related orofacial pain is a common clinical manifestation associated with muscular hyperactivity, psychoemotional factors, and altered pain sensitivity. Immersive virtual reality (iVR) has emerged as a non-pharmacological strategy for pain ma...
The study examines the acceptance of Virtual Reality (VR) as a university educational resource using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). A quasi-experimental design was applied with 132 students from the Bachelor’s Degree in Education at the...
As traffic automation grows, research into communication between automated vehicles (AVs) and pedestrians is increasing. Since communication is particularly challenging for persons with intellectual disability (PID), we investigated which gestures ar...
As VR hardware advances, hardware-related factors inducing motion sickness are expected to be gradually resolved; consequently, software-based mitigation methods are garnering significant attention. While various software-based methods exist, they of...
Byzantine theological education often focuses on textual abstraction, frequently failing to convey the tradition’s embodied, spatial, and liturgical depths. This mixed-methods case study examined whether immersive virtual reality (IVR) could br...
Virtual reality (VR) technology presents the potential of transforming science education. Chemistry education, in particular, has traditionally been limited by the safety, infrastructure, and cost of chemistry laboratories, as well as the inability o...
Rapid technological advancements are transforming educational practice and reshaping the traditional conception of learning. In particular, immersive technologies, such as augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), have shifted the focus from l...
This study examines the effectiveness of a virtual reality (VR) application as a learning tool in higher hospitality education, focusing on declarative knowledge acquisition and test-based learning outcomes. Conducted as a classroom-based pilot study...
Driven by competition, innovation, and shifting market demands, the automotive industry has evolved from mass production to high-mix, low-volume manufacturing, increasing operator flexibility and cognitive load. Virtual Reality (VR) can support train...
Augmented reality (AR) provides a new format for retailers to connect with consumers. However, different consumer subgroups may have varying perceptions of AR as an integral technology within the retail experience. Since Millennials currently have an...
Virtual reality (VR) provides a flexible platform for investigating human perception of augmented bodily abilities. While motion scaling of virtual limbs has been explored in previous studies, psychophysical detection thresholds and embodiment have r...
This paper presents a workflow-driven VR simulation system for esports event production, designed to enable interaction with core production subsystems, including lighting control, audio management, and broadcast monitoring, within a task-based virtu...
Fibromyalgia (FM) is associated with altered pain modulation and heterogeneous responses to exercise. Exercise-induced hypoalgesia (EIH), typically observed in healthy individuals, appears inconsistent in FM. Immersive virtual reality-based exercise...
This article reports an exploratory, small-cohort mixed-methods case study of how an e-learning platform and a virtual reality (VR) workshop simulator can be integrated into a traditional craft apprenticeship without displacing workshop-based learnin...
Over the past decade, serious games and virtual reality have gained increasing relevance in upper-limb rehabilitation, yet desktop virtual reality solutions often suffer from reduced spatial correspondence and limited sensory feedback. This work pres...
This systematic review critically analysed the differences, intersections, and trends toward convergence between Human Resource Management (HRM) and People Management (PM), highlighting the evolution of these approaches in organizational contexts mar...
Urban planning increasingly depends on methods capable of capturing citizen perspectives in forms that are both inclusive and analytically useful for decision-making. Conventional participation mechanisms, such as public meetings, paper questionnaire...
Despite the increasing adoption of metaverse technologies, particularly in educational contexts, the cognitive impacts of students designing their own immersive experiences remain underexplored. This study addresses that gap by providing empirical ba...
Gamification, defined as the application of game elements in non-gaming contexts, has emerged as a promising tool for enhancing student engagement in content-heavy curriculums such as anatomy and physiology. This preliminary study describes the devel...
In recent years, the generation and animation of avatars in virtual reality (VR) have undergone a definitive paradigm shift, transitioning from pre-rendered, manually rigged meshes to autonomous, AI-driven digital entities. While individual algorithm...
Extended reality (XR), encompassing augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR), is a key enabling technology for virtual worlds, and XR-related patents continue to grow rapidly. However, patent-based XR technology analysis f...
Extended Reality (XR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are increasingly converging within cyber–physical infrastructures, including digital twins, the Spatial Web, and smart-city systems. These environments require new frameworks for understand...
Distance learners in higher education are often assumed to face limited peer interaction, potentially weakening their sense of belonging. This study examines peer relationships and belonging among students in distance and blended university programs,...
Immersive virtual environments are increasingly investigated as tools capable of modulating conscious experience, yet the specific contribution of graded immersion to altered states of consciousness (ASC), time perception, and cognition remains uncle...
The collection of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) is a key measurement tool for patient-centred care. At the same time, collecting these measures poses obstacles for many patients, leading to these groups being underrepresented in the data....
Augmented reality (AR) offers promising opportunities to support manual assembly, but there is little consensus on how much information AR instructions should contain, reflecting debates between cognitive-load-oriented minimalism and multimedia-learn...
As virtual reality technologies evolve toward widespread adoption in education, industry, and social communication, their increasing complexity exposes new and often overlooked security challenges. Immersive environments collect continuous multimodal...
Immersive virtual reality (VR) is increasingly used to promote ethical engagement and bystander intervention in response to social harms, yet the psychological mechanisms through which immersive experiences motivate intervention remain unclear. The p...
Immersive virtual reality (VR) offers promising opportunities for skill acquisition in complex motor domains, yet its specific potential for martial arts training remains underexplored. This pilot study examined how visual and auditory feedback are a...
This paper presents a modular evaluation questionnaire designed to assess Knowledge and Technology Transfer (KT) events in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). KT is central to the HEI’s third mission, contributing to societal and economic pro...
