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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Testing an Immersive Virtual Environment for Decreasing Intergroup Anxiety among University Students: An Interpersonal Perspective
Contributor:
Kuuluvainen, Venla;
Virtanen, Ira;
Rikkonen, Lassi;
Isotalus, Pekka
Published:
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), 2021
Published in:
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 16 (2021) 16, Seite 202
Language:
Without Specification
DOI:
10.3991/ijet.v16i16.19673
ISSN:
1863-0383
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
This study examined the use of an immersive virtual environment (IVE) in decreasing intergroup anxiety among university students. In Dinner-time360 , the students engaged in an interpersonal encounter by sharing a virtual dinner table with someone from another linguistic or cultural group. A control group watched the documentary in a traditional 2D format. The re-sults showed that the documentary reduced intergroup anxiety in both situa-tions, particularly among students with high anxiety who engaged in the IVE. For the IVE viewers, the decrease in intergroup anxiety was connected to two interpersonal elements: perceptions of the character’s immediacy and an in-creased level of homophily. These findings provide insights into the possibil-ities of IVEs in multicultural learning among university students.