The Use of Virtual Reality as a Potential Restorative Environment in School During Recess

Antti Lähtevänoja; Jani Holopainen; Osmo Mattila; Petri Parvinen

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-65218-0_32

The Use of Virtual Reality as a Potential Restorative Environment in School During Recess

Antti Lähtevänoja^*, Jani Holopainen, Osmo Mattila, Petri Parvinen

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Department of Industrial Engineering and Management

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Abstract

Previous research has found out that simulated, Virtual Reality (VR)-based forests can bring equal or even higher restorative effects than real forests. In this study, a Virtual Reality (VR)-based forest was created in order to compare whether VR-based forest can possess restorative effects in the context of primary school, and how the possible effects compare to restorative effects of a normal recess or to a situation when there is no recess at all. The effects were measured using Restorative Outcome Scale (ROS) and problem-solving tasks after the intervention. The results showed that VR-based forest had the highest restorative effect. There was a significant difference between VR-forest and no recess-groups, but no statistical difference between VR-forest and normal recess-groups. Future research avenues and implications of virtual forests are discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Digital Transformation and Global Society - 5th International Conference, DTGS 2020, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Daniel A. Alexandrov, Alexander V. Boukhanovsky, Andrei V. Chugunov, Yury Kabanov, Olessia Koltsova, Ilya Musabirov
Publisher	Springer
Pages	436-446
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Print)	9783030652173
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65218-0_32
Publication status	Published - 2020
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	International Conference on Digital Transformation and Global Society - St. Petersburg, Russian Federation Duration: 17 Jun 2020 → 19 Jun 2020 Conference number: 5

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	1242
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-0937

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Digital Transformation and Global Society
Abbreviated title	DTGS
Country/Territory	Russian Federation
City	St. Petersburg
Period	17/06/2020 → 19/06/2020

Keywords

Restorative outcome scale attention restoration
Virtual forest
Virtual reality

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Lähtevänoja, A., Holopainen, J., Mattila, O., & Parvinen, P. (2020). The Use of Virtual Reality as a Potential Restorative Environment in School During Recess. In D. A. Alexandrov, A. V. Boukhanovsky, A. V. Chugunov, Y. Kabanov, O. Koltsova, & I. Musabirov (Eds.), Digital Transformation and Global Society - 5th International Conference, DTGS 2020, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 436-446). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1242). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65218-0_32

Lähtevänoja, Antti ; Holopainen, Jani ; Mattila, Osmo et al. / The Use of Virtual Reality as a Potential Restorative Environment in School During Recess. Digital Transformation and Global Society - 5th International Conference, DTGS 2020, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Daniel A. Alexandrov ; Alexander V. Boukhanovsky ; Andrei V. Chugunov ; Yury Kabanov ; Olessia Koltsova ; Ilya Musabirov. Springer, 2020. pp. 436-446 (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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Lähtevänoja, A, Holopainen, J, Mattila, O & Parvinen, P 2020, The Use of Virtual Reality as a Potential Restorative Environment in School During Recess. in DA Alexandrov, AV Boukhanovsky, AV Chugunov, Y Kabanov, O Koltsova & I Musabirov (eds), Digital Transformation and Global Society - 5th International Conference, DTGS 2020, Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1242, Springer, pp. 436-446, International Conference on Digital Transformation and Global Society, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, 17/06/2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65218-0_32

The Use of Virtual Reality as a Potential Restorative Environment in School During Recess. / Lähtevänoja, Antti; Holopainen, Jani; Mattila, Osmo et al.
Digital Transformation and Global Society - 5th International Conference, DTGS 2020, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Daniel A. Alexandrov; Alexander V. Boukhanovsky; Andrei V. Chugunov; Yury Kabanov; Olessia Koltsova; Ilya Musabirov. Springer, 2020. p. 436-446 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1242).

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Lähtevänoja A, Holopainen J, Mattila O, Parvinen P. The Use of Virtual Reality as a Potential Restorative Environment in School During Recess. In Alexandrov DA, Boukhanovsky AV, Chugunov AV, Kabanov Y, Koltsova O, Musabirov I, editors, Digital Transformation and Global Society - 5th International Conference, DTGS 2020, Revised Selected Papers. Springer. 2020. p. 436-446. (Communications in Computer and Information Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-65218-0_32

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