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Virtual Reality Monitoring: How Real is Virtual Reality?

by Keith Hullfish

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Title Page
  
• Acknowledgements and Dedication
  
• List of Figures
  
• List of Tables

1. CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
   
   • 1.1 Impetus
     
   • 1.2 The Human Factor
     
   • 1.2.1 The Presence Model
     
   • 1.2.2 The Environment Metaphor: Ellis, 1991
     
   • 1.2.3 Distal Attribution Loomis: 1992
     
   • 1.2.4 Reality Monitoring: Johnson & Raye, 1981
     
2. Chapter 2 SOURCE MONITORING THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
   
   • 2.1 Definition
     
   • 2.2 Memory Characteristics
     
   • 2.3 Decision Process
     
   • 2.4 Conditions Operating Under Source Monitoring
     
   • 2.5 Predictions
     
3. CHAPTER 3 VIRTUAL REALITY MONITORING
   
   • 3.1 The Definition of Virtual Reality
     
   • 3.2 The Role of Source Monitoring
     
   • 3.3 The Turing-Test
     
   • 3.4 The Original Question
     
4. CHAPTER 4 COGNITIVE EFFORT AS AN ARTIFACT
   
   • 4.1 In Source Monitoring
     
   • 4.2 Its Potential in Virtual Reality
     
5. CHAPTER 5 EXPERIMENT
   
   • 5.1 Method
     
     • 5.1.1 Subjects
       
     • 5.1.2 Stimuli and Apparatus
       
     • 5.1.2.1 Stimuli Design
       
     • 5.1.2.2 Worldsets
       
     • 5.1.2.3 Environmental Design
       
     • 5.1.3 Procedure
       
     • 5.1.3.1 Study Phase
       
     • 5.1.3.2 Test Phase
       
   • 5.2 Results
     
     • 5.2.1 Virtual Reality Monitoring Test
       
     • 5.2.1.1 Old/New Recognition
       
     • 5.2.1.2 Correct Identification Of Origin
       
     • 5.2.1.3 Confusions
       
     • 5.2.2 Memory Characteristic Questionnaire
       
   • 5.3 Discussion
     
6. Chapter 6 CONCLUSION

• List of References
  
• Appendix A MCQ
  
• Appendix B Imagination Instructions
  
• Appendix C Introduction to the Experiment
  
• Appendix D Schematics of the Experimental Designs
  
• Appendix E MCQ Results