Spatial Memory Awareness States

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Description

A questionnaire was designed to test memory recall of the positions and geometric shape of objects in the VE. A diagram of each wall in the room included numbered positions of objects. The questionnaire consists of 21 multiple choice questions; one for each object in the room. Every question includes 3 possible answers (box, sphere, pyramid), a confidence scale with 5 possible states (no confidence, low confidence, moderate confidence, confident, certain), and an awareness state report (remember, know, familiar, guess). Awareness state responses are taken to reflect the amount of visual mental imagery involved during retrieval.

Primary Reference or Source

• Mania, K., Troscianko, T., Hawkes, R., & Chalmers, A. (2003). Fidelity metrics for virtual environment simulations based on spatial memory awareness states. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 12, 296-310.