TY - JOUR
T1 - Some practical considerations of ethical issues in VR research
AU - Behr, Katharina Maria
AU - Nosper, Andreas
AU - Klimmt, Christoph
AU - Hartmann, Tilo
PY - 2005/12
Y1 - 2005/12
N2 - As scientific laboratories are an important domain of application of VR technology, ethical issues of VR have to be discussed with respect to research and the treatment of research subjects. Exposing participants to VR systems may raise ethical problems due to motion sickness, information overload, intensification of experience, and difficulties with reentry into the real world. The ethical guidelines which are typically applied to psychological research do not cover all of these problems in detail and have to be reconsidered, since they have not been developed with regard to the use of VR systems. Therefore, practical strategies to cope with the addressed ethical problems in VR research are recommended.
AB - As scientific laboratories are an important domain of application of VR technology, ethical issues of VR have to be discussed with respect to research and the treatment of research subjects. Exposing participants to VR systems may raise ethical problems due to motion sickness, information overload, intensification of experience, and difficulties with reentry into the real world. The ethical guidelines which are typically applied to psychological research do not cover all of these problems in detail and have to be reconsidered, since they have not been developed with regard to the use of VR systems. Therefore, practical strategies to cope with the addressed ethical problems in VR research are recommended.
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U2 - 10.1162/105474605775196535
DO - 10.1162/105474605775196535
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33645740761
VL - 14
SP - 668
EP - 676
JO - Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
JF - Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
SN - 1054-7460
IS - 6
ER -