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Kirya, Mark, Debattista, Kurt and Chalmers, Alan (2023) Using virtual environments to facilitate refugee integration in third countries. Virtual Reality, 27 . pp. 97-107. doi:10.1007/s10055-022-00659-x ISSN 1359-4338.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10055-022-00659-x
Abstract
Virtual experiences (VEs) have significant potential to enrich emotional interactions, to encourage socialisation and improve communication. In education, VEs offer new approaches for delivering content. In this paper we consider the application of VEs for assisting refugees in Senegal to learn how to navigate the complexities of the UK health system; a substantial stumbling block for their integration into society and for their own health. Participants (N=122), refugees awaiting to be repatriated, were exposed to material presented via three different media text, 360° videos and virtual reality (VR) across a total of seven different modalities. The experiment investigated specific attributes of the media that would facilitate refugees’ integration, such as knowledge received and retained, experience, usability and presence. The results show that interactive media, in particular VR, was significantly better across all tested attributes.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software T Technology > T Technology (General) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Virtual reality , Virtual reality -- Health aspects -- Senegal, Technological innovations -- Health aspects -- Senegal, Refugees -- Senegal -- Computer simulation | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Virtual Reality | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Springer U K | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1359-4338 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | March 2023 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 27 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 97-107 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10055-022-00659-x | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 July 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 July 2022 | ||||||||
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