The impact of visual fidelity on screen-based virtual reality food choices: A randomized pilot study.
<h4>Objective</h4>To understand the impact of fidelity and perceived realism on virtual reality food choices, and task motivation, engagement, and interest.<h4>Design</h4>Randomized controlled trial.<h4>Setting</h4>Online.<h4>Participants</h4>84 partic...
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| author | Bianca Curi Braga Pejman Sajjadi Mahda Bagher Alexander Klippel Jessica Menold Travis Masterson |
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| description | <h4>Objective</h4>To understand the impact of fidelity and perceived realism on virtual reality food choices, and task motivation, engagement, and interest.<h4>Design</h4>Randomized controlled trial.<h4>Setting</h4>Online.<h4>Participants</h4>84 participants recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk.<h4>Intervention</h4>Participants were randomly assigned to either a high- (n = 43) or a low- (n = 41) visual fidelity environment and were asked to select foods to have a meal with a friend.<h4>Main outcome measures</h4>Food choice, motivation of food choices, engagement, and interest.<h4>Analysis</h4>Simple linear regressions between visual fidelity and perceived realism, and log-linear regressions for visual fidelity or perceived realism on either motivation, interest, or engagement. Poisson models between visual fidelity or perceived realism, and food selections.<h4>Results</h4>Manipulating visual fidelity was not associated with perceived realism, motivation, interest, or engagement in the food selection task. Perceived realism increased motivation by 0.3% (SE 0.056; p = 0.022), interest by 1.4% (SE 0.002; p<0.001), and engagement by 0.9% (SE 0.001; p<0.001) in the food selection task. High visual fidelity decreased the total number of foods selected (B = 0.216; CI (-0.384; -0.047); p = 0.012).<h4>Conclusion and implications</h4>Perceived realism, but not visual fidelity, is important for task related factors like motivation, engagement, and interest. Visual fidelity may influence some food selections. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2c29fd52110f40338037d917848e215e2025-02-07T05:30:44ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032025-01-01201e031277210.1371/journal.pone.0312772The impact of visual fidelity on screen-based virtual reality food choices: A randomized pilot study.Bianca Curi BragaPejman SajjadiMahda BagherAlexander KlippelJessica MenoldTravis Masterson<h4>Objective</h4>To understand the impact of fidelity and perceived realism on virtual reality food choices, and task motivation, engagement, and interest.<h4>Design</h4>Randomized controlled trial.<h4>Setting</h4>Online.<h4>Participants</h4>84 participants recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk.<h4>Intervention</h4>Participants were randomly assigned to either a high- (n = 43) or a low- (n = 41) visual fidelity environment and were asked to select foods to have a meal with a friend.<h4>Main outcome measures</h4>Food choice, motivation of food choices, engagement, and interest.<h4>Analysis</h4>Simple linear regressions between visual fidelity and perceived realism, and log-linear regressions for visual fidelity or perceived realism on either motivation, interest, or engagement. Poisson models between visual fidelity or perceived realism, and food selections.<h4>Results</h4>Manipulating visual fidelity was not associated with perceived realism, motivation, interest, or engagement in the food selection task. Perceived realism increased motivation by 0.3% (SE 0.056; p = 0.022), interest by 1.4% (SE 0.002; p<0.001), and engagement by 0.9% (SE 0.001; p<0.001) in the food selection task. High visual fidelity decreased the total number of foods selected (B = 0.216; CI (-0.384; -0.047); p = 0.012).<h4>Conclusion and implications</h4>Perceived realism, but not visual fidelity, is important for task related factors like motivation, engagement, and interest. Visual fidelity may influence some food selections.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312772 |
| spellingShingle | Bianca Curi Braga Pejman Sajjadi Mahda Bagher Alexander Klippel Jessica Menold Travis Masterson The impact of visual fidelity on screen-based virtual reality food choices: A randomized pilot study. PLoS ONE |
| title | The impact of visual fidelity on screen-based virtual reality food choices: A randomized pilot study. |
| title_full | The impact of visual fidelity on screen-based virtual reality food choices: A randomized pilot study. |
| title_fullStr | The impact of visual fidelity on screen-based virtual reality food choices: A randomized pilot study. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The impact of visual fidelity on screen-based virtual reality food choices: A randomized pilot study. |
| title_short | The impact of visual fidelity on screen-based virtual reality food choices: A randomized pilot study. |
| title_sort | impact of visual fidelity on screen based virtual reality food choices a randomized pilot study |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312772 |
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