The use of Virtual Reality (VR) to assess the impact of geographical environments on walking and cycling: a systematic literature review.

IF 3 2区 医学 Q2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Marzieh Ghanbari, Martin Dijst, Roderick McCall, Camille Perchoux
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Abstract

Background: Geographical environments influence people's active mobility behaviors, contributing to their physical and mental health. The use of Virtual Reality (VR) in experimental research can unveil new insights into the relationship between exposure to geographic environments and active mobility behaviors. This systematic review aims to (1) identify environmental attributes investigated in relation with walking and cycling, using VR, (2) assess their impacts on active mobility behaviors and attitudes, and (3) identify research gaps, strengths and limitations in VR-based experimental research.

Methods: Articles published between January 2010 and February 2022 within five databases (PubMed, Scopus, EBSCO, IEEE Xplore, and Cochrane Library) were explored using three keywords and their synonyms: Virtual Reality, Active mobility behavior, and Geographical environments. Studies focusing on indoor environments, driving simulation, disease-specific groups, non-relevant disciplines (e.g. military, emergency evacuation), VR methodology/software optimization, and those with static participants' involvement were excluded. The full protocol is available from PROSPERO (ID = CRD42022308366).

Results: Out of 3255 articles, 18 peer-reviewed papers met the selection criteria, mostly focusing on walking (83%). Most studies used head-mounted displays (94%) and relied on convenience sampling (72% below 100 participants). Both static (33%) and dynamic (45%) environmental attributes have been investigated, with only 22% of them simultaneously in the same virtual environment. Greenness and crowd density were the most frequent attributes, rather consistently associated with emotional states and movement behaviors. Few studies have taken into account participant's previous VR experience (33%) and cybersickness (39%) while both are likely to affect an individual's perception and behavior.

Conclusions: Future research should explore a broader range of environmental attributes, including static and dynamic ones, as well as a more complex integration of these attributes within a single experiment to mimic the effect of realistic environments on people's active mobility behaviors and attitudes. Larger and more diverse population samples are deemed required to improve result generalizability. Despite methodological challenges, VR emerges as a promising tool to disentangle the effect of complex environments on active mobility behaviors.

使用虚拟现实技术(VR)评估地理环境对步行和骑自行车的影响:系统性文献综述。
背景:地理环境会影响人们的主动移动行为,从而促进他们的身心健康。在实验研究中使用虚拟现实(VR)可以揭示接触地理环境与积极行动行为之间关系的新见解。本系统性综述旨在:(1)确定使用虚拟现实技术调查的与步行和骑自行车有关的环境属性;(2)评估它们对积极行动行为和态度的影响;(3)确定基于虚拟现实技术的实验研究中的研究空白、优势和局限性:使用三个关键词及其同义词对五个数据库(PubMed、Scopus、EBSCO、IEEE Xplore 和 Cochrane Library)中 2010 年 1 月至 2022 年 2 月间发表的文章进行了研究:虚拟现实、主动移动行为和地理环境。排除了关注室内环境、模拟驾驶、特定疾病群体、非相关学科(如军事、紧急疏散)、虚拟现实方法/软件优化以及静态参与者参与的研究。全文可从 PROSPERO(ID = CRD42022308366)获取:结果:在 3255 篇文章中,有 18 篇经同行评审的论文符合筛选标准,其中大部分侧重于步行(83%)。大多数研究都使用了头戴式显示器(94%),并依赖于方便取样(72%的研究参与者少于100人)。对静态(33%)和动态(45%)环境属性都进行了研究,其中只有 22% 的研究在同一虚拟环境中同时进行。绿化和人群密度是最常见的属性,与情绪状态和运动行为的关系相当一致。很少有研究考虑到参与者以前的虚拟现实经验(33%)和晕机(39%),而这两者都可能影响个人的感知和行为:未来的研究应该探索更广泛的环境属性,包括静态和动态属性,并在一次实验中更复杂地整合这些属性,以模拟现实环境对人们主动移动行为和态度的影响。我们认为需要更大、更多样化的人群样本,以提高结果的普遍性。尽管在方法论上存在挑战,但虚拟现实技术是一种很有前途的工具,可用于区分复杂环境对主动移动行为的影响。
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International Journal of Health Geographics
International Journal of Health Geographics PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH -
CiteScore
10.20
自引率
2.00%
发文量
17
审稿时长
12 weeks
期刊介绍: A leader among the field, International Journal of Health Geographics is an interdisciplinary, open access journal publishing internationally significant studies of geospatial information systems and science applications in health and healthcare. With an exceptional author satisfaction rate and a quick time to first decision, the journal caters to readers across an array of healthcare disciplines globally. International Journal of Health Geographics welcomes novel studies in the health and healthcare context spanning from spatial data infrastructure and Web geospatial interoperability research, to research into real-time Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-enabled surveillance services, remote sensing applications, spatial epidemiology, spatio-temporal statistics, internet GIS and cyberspace mapping, participatory GIS and citizen sensing, geospatial big data, healthy smart cities and regions, and geospatial Internet of Things and blockchain.
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