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Bratislava Medical Journal Vol.114, No.10, p.595-602, 2013

Title: Alleviating travel anxiety through virtual reality and narrated video technology
Author: J. C. Ahn, O. Lee
Abstract: This study presents an empirical evidence of benefit of narrative video clips in embedded virtual reality websites of hotels for relieving travel anxiety. Even though it was proven that virtual reality functions do provide some relief in travel anxiety, a stronger virtual reality website can be built when narrative video clips that show video clips with narration about important aspects of the hotel. We posit that these important aspects are 1. Escape route and 2. Surrounding neighborhood information, which are derived from the existing research on anxiety disorder as well as travel anxiety. Thus we created a video clip that showed and narrated about the escape route from the hotel room, another video clip that showed and narrated about surrounding neighborhood. We then conducted experiments with this enhanced virtual reality website of a hotel by having human subjects play with the website and fill out a questionnaire. The result confirms our hypothesis that there is a statistically significant relationship between the degree of travel anxiety and psychological relief caused by the use of embedded virtual reality functions with narrative video clips of a hotel website (Tab. 2, Fig. 3, Ref. 26).
Keywords: hotel room, websites of hotels, virtual reality, alleviating travel, video technology.
Year: 2013, Volume: 114, Issue: 10 Page From: 595, Page To: 602
doi:10.4149/BLL_2013_128


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