Testing an Immersive Virtual Environment for Decreasing Intergroup Anxiety among University Students: An Interpersonal Perspective
Kuuluvainen, Venla; Virtanen, Ira; Rikkonen, Lassi; Isotalus, Pekka (2021-08-23)
Kuuluvainen, Venla
Virtanen, Ira
Rikkonen, Lassi
Isotalus, Pekka
23.08.2021
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202108306865
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202108306865
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Peer reviewed
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This study examined the use of an immersive virtual environment (IVE) in decreasing intergroup anxiety among university students. In Dinner-time360 , the students engaged in an interpersonal encounter by sharing a virtual dinner table with someone from another linguistic or cultural group. A control group watched the documentary in a traditional 2D format. The re-sults showed that the documentary reduced intergroup anxiety in both situa-tions, particularly among students with high anxiety who engaged in the IVE. For the IVE viewers, the decrease in intergroup anxiety was connected to two interpersonal elements: perceptions of the character’s immediacy and an in-creased level of homophily. These findings provide insights into the possibil-ities of IVEs in multicultural learning among university students.
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