Broad Environmental Change Blindness in Virtual Environments and Video Games

Daryl Marples; Pelham Carter; Duke Gledhill; Simon Goodson

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-37983-4_13

Broad Environmental Change Blindness in Virtual Environments and Video Games

Daryl Marples, Pelham Carter, Duke Gledhill, Simon Goodson

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For almost 120 years, it has been demonstrated in literature that humans are susceptible to many different types of change blindness; essentially if a change in a visual scene is not sudden or obvious, it fails to be detected. Research utilising video game environments provides the opportunity for the study of change blindness during dynamic and interactive tasks. This study examined participant perception of gradual broad changes to both colour and textural information across surfaces and objects in a video game mimicking that of a First Person adventure or point and click game/genre escape room task. 119 participants were asked to solve a room escape puzzle, results demonstrated that perception of gradual textural changes to an environment across a range of decreasing durations (90s, 45s, 22.5s & 11.25s) were detected only by a very small proportion of participants (4.20%). There was no significant effect of the variation in time on detection rates.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Videogame Sciences and Arts
Subtitle of host publication	11th International Conference, VJ 2019, Aveiro, Portugal, November 27–29, 2019, Proceedings
Editors	Nelson Zagalo, Ana Isabel Veloso, Liliana Costa, Óscar Mealha
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Pages	169-178
Number of pages	10
Volume	CCIS 1164
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030379834
ISBN (Print)	9783030379827
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37983-4_13
Publication status	Published - 24 Jan 2020
Event	11th Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts - Aveiro, Portugal Duration: 27 Nov 2019 → 29 Nov 2019 Conference number: 11 http://videojogos2019.web.ua.pt/

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Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Publisher	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Volume	CCIS 1164
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-0937

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Conference	11th Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Aveiro
Period	27/11/19 → 29/11/19
Internet address	http://videojogos2019.web.ua.pt/

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Marples, D., Carter, P., Gledhill, D., & Goodson, S. (2020). Broad Environmental Change Blindness in Virtual Environments and Video Games. In N. Zagalo, A. I. Veloso, L. Costa, & Ó. Mealha (Eds.), Videogame Sciences and Arts: 11th International Conference, VJ 2019, Aveiro, Portugal, November 27–29, 2019, Proceedings (1st ed., Vol. CCIS 1164, pp. 169-178). (Communications in Computer and Information Science ; Vol. CCIS 1164). Springer Nature Switzerland AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37983-4_13

Marples, Daryl ; Carter, Pelham ; Gledhill, Duke et al. / Broad Environmental Change Blindness in Virtual Environments and Video Games. Videogame Sciences and Arts: 11th International Conference, VJ 2019, Aveiro, Portugal, November 27–29, 2019, Proceedings. editor / Nelson Zagalo ; Ana Isabel Veloso ; Liliana Costa ; Óscar Mealha. Vol. CCIS 1164 1st. ed. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020. pp. 169-178 (Communications in Computer and Information Science ).

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Marples, D, Carter, P, Gledhill, D & Goodson, S 2020, Broad Environmental Change Blindness in Virtual Environments and Video Games. in N Zagalo, AI Veloso, L Costa & Ó Mealha (eds), Videogame Sciences and Arts: 11th International Conference, VJ 2019, Aveiro, Portugal, November 27–29, 2019, Proceedings. 1st edn, vol. CCIS 1164, Communications in Computer and Information Science , vol. CCIS 1164, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, pp. 169-178, 11th Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts, Aveiro, Portugal, 27/11/19. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37983-4_13

Broad Environmental Change Blindness in Virtual Environments and Video Games. / Marples, Daryl; Carter, Pelham; Gledhill, Duke et al.

Videogame Sciences and Arts: 11th International Conference, VJ 2019, Aveiro, Portugal, November 27–29, 2019, Proceedings. ed. / Nelson Zagalo; Ana Isabel Veloso; Liliana Costa; Óscar Mealha. Vol. CCIS 1164 1st. ed. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020. p. 169-178 (Communications in Computer and Information Science ; Vol. CCIS 1164).

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Marples D, Carter P, Gledhill D, Goodson S. Broad Environmental Change Blindness in Virtual Environments and Video Games. In Zagalo N, Veloso AI, Costa L, Mealha Ó, editors, Videogame Sciences and Arts: 11th International Conference, VJ 2019, Aveiro, Portugal, November 27–29, 2019, Proceedings. 1st ed. Vol. CCIS 1164. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 2020. p. 169-178. (Communications in Computer and Information Science ). Epub 2019 Dec 27. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-37983-4_13

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