OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Virtual Reality is 10. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Immersive Virtual Reality in K-12 and Higher Education: A systematic review of the last decade scientific literature	179
Cybersickness in current-generation virtual reality head-mounted displays: systematic review and outlook	153
Virtual reality consumer experience escapes: preparing for the metaverse	136
Using virtual reality for dynamic learning: an extended technology acceptance model	96
A review of the evidence for training effectiveness with virtual reality technology	92
Cyber sickness in low-immersive, semi-immersive, and fully immersive virtual reality	88
Could virtual reality applications pose real risks to children and adolescents? A systematic review of ethical issues and concerns	73
Virtual, mixed, and augmented reality: a systematic review for immersive systems research	70
A review of cybersickness in head-mounted displays: raising attention to individual susceptibility	65
A narrative review of immersive virtual reality’s ergonomics and risks at the workplace: cybersickness, visual fatigue, muscular fatigue, acute stress, and mental overload	64
A meta-analysis of the virtual reality problem: Unequal effects of virtual reality sickness across individual differences	57
Quantifying VR cybersickness using EEG	50
Nature in virtual reality improves mood and reduces stress: evidence from young adults and senior citizens	46
Eye Tracking in Virtual Reality: a Broad Review of Applications and Challenges	46
Immersive virtual-reality computer-assembly serious game to enhance autonomous learning	45
Digital shinrin-yoku: do nature experiences in virtual reality reduce stress and increase well-being as strongly as similar experiences in a physical forest?	44
Effect of immersive visualization technologies on cognitive load, motivation, usability, and embodiment	43
Fear and loathing in VR: the emotional and physiological effects of immersive games	41
Immersive virtual reality as physical therapy in older adults: present or future (systematic review)	40
Visualization in virtual reality: a systematic review	37
A mobile VR-based respiratory biofeedback game to foster diaphragmatic breathing	35
Task-specific virtual reality training on hemiparetic upper extremity in patients with stroke	35
Acceptance of dance training system based on augmented reality and technology acceptance model (TAM)	33
Enhancing stroke assessment simulation experience in clinical training using augmented reality	32
A framework for constructing and evaluating the role of MR as a holographic virtual guide in museums	31

Exposure to virtual nature: the impact of different immersion levels on skin conductance level, heart rate, and perceived relaxation	31
Virtual reality exergame for supplementing multimodal pain therapy in older adults with chronic back pain: a randomized controlled pilot study	30
Exploring the effect of an augmented reality literacy programme for reading and spelling difficulties for children diagnosed with ADHD	28
Conceptualising touch in VR	27
Exploring sensorimotor performance and user experience within a virtual reality golf putting simulator	26
Three-dimensional modeled environments versus 360 degree panoramas for mobile virtual reality training	26
Inclusive Immersion: a review of efforts to improve accessibility in virtual reality, augmented reality and the metaverse	25
Performance enhancement of facial electromyogram-based facial-expression recognition for social virtual reality applications using linear discriminant analysis adaptation	24
Marketing in the metaverse era: toward an integrative channel approach	24
Immersive training of first responder squad leaders in untethered virtual reality	23
Reductions in sickness with repeated exposure to HMD-based virtual reality appear to be game-specific	23
The effectiveness of a virtual reality attention task to predict depression and anxiety in comparison with current clinical measures	22
Evaluation of the impact of different levels of self-representation and body tracking on the sense of presence and embodiment in immersive VR	22
Comparing augmented reality visualization methods for assembly procedures	22
Virtual reality as a communication medium: a comparative study of forced compliance in virtual reality versus physical world	21
Training in virtual reality enables learning of a complex sports movement	21
Teleguidance-based remote navigation assistance for visually impaired and blind people—usability and user experience	21
Virtual reality for the assessment and rehabilitation of neglect: where are we now? A 6-year review update	21
Exploring structural relations among computer self-efficacy, perceived immersion, and intention to use virtual reality training systems	21
Immersive virtual reality for upper limb rehabilitation: comparing hand and controller interaction	21
Virtual reality applied to physiotherapy: a review of current knowledge	21
Focusing on cybersickness: pervasiveness, latent trajectories, susceptibility, and effects on the virtual reality experience	21
Comparison of spatial orientation skill between real and virtual environment	21
Assessment of consumer VR-headsets’ objective and subjective field of view (FoV) and its feasibility for visual field testing	20
A framework for fidelity evaluation of immersive virtual reality systems	20
A social VR-based collaborative exergame for rehabilitation: codesign, development and user study	20
A scoping review of the educational uses of 6DoF HMDs	20
Exploiting fashion x-commerce through the empowerment of voice in the fashion virtual reality arena	19
Social viewing in cinematic virtual reality: a design space for social movie applications	19
A virtual classroom can elicit teachers’ speech characteristics: evidence from acoustic measurements during in vivo and in virtuo lessons, compared to a free speech control situation	19
Buddy biking: a user study on social collaboration in a virtual reality exergame for rehabilitation	19
Automatic detection and classification of emotional states in virtual reality and standard environments (LCD): comparing valence and arousal of induced emotions	19
Ellic’s Exercise Class: promoting physical activities during exergaming with immersive virtual reality	18
Evaluating the effectiveness of virtual reality for safety-relevant training: a systematic review	18
Extended reality technologies in small and medium-sized European industrial companies: level of awareness, diffusion and enablers of adoption	18
MagicChem: a MR system based on needs theory for chemical experiments	18
The potential of immersive virtual reality for representations in design education	17
“Passive or interactive virtual reality? The effectiveness for pain and anxiety reduction in pediatric patients”	17
Immersive virtual reality for improving cognitive deficits in children with ADHD: a systematic review and meta-analysis	17
Assessing the learning and transfer of gaze behaviours in immersive virtual reality	17
Quantitative evaluation of visual guidance effects for 360-degree directions	17
Cost–benefit analysis of virtual reality-based training for emergency rescue workers: a socio-technical systems approach	17
Immersive virtual reality as an empirical research tool: exploring the capability of a machine learning model for predicting construction workers’ safety behaviour	17
Eye movements to absent objects during mental imagery and visual memory in immersive virtual reality	17
Memory for a virtual reality experience in children and adults according to image quality, emotion, and sense of presence	16
Spatial and attentional aftereffects of virtual reality and relations to cybersickness	16
Towards socialVR: evaluating a novel technology for watching videos together	16
Immersive and desktop virtual reality in virtual fashion stores: a comparison between shopping experiences	16
The effects of touchless interaction on usability and sense of presence in a virtual environment	16
A comprehensive method to design and assess mixed reality simulations	16

Comparison of the effect of 360° versus two-dimensional virtual reality video on history taking and physical examination skills learning among undergraduate medical students: a randomized controlled t	16
Influence of navigation parameters on cybersickness in virtual reality	16
Museum beyond physical walls: an exploration of virtual reality-enhanced experience in an exhibition-like space	15
The influence of personality, sound, and content difficulty on virtual reality sickness	15
Contributions of pictorial and binocular cues to the perception of distance in virtual reality	15
The role of digital literacy in augmented, virtual, and mixed reality in popular science education: a review study and an educational framework development	15
Perceived usefulness of, engagement with, and effectiveness of virtual reality environments in learning industrial operations: the moderating role of openness to experience	15
A use case study comparing augmented reality (AR) and electronic document-based maintenance instructions considering tasks complexity and operator competency level	15
Acceptance and use of virtual reality games: an extension of HMSAM	15
Evaluation of the Oculus Rift S tracking system in room scale virtual reality	14
BeHere: a VR/SAR remote collaboration system based on virtual replicas sharing gesture and avatar in a procedural task	14
Cognitive load in immersive media settings: the role of spatial presence and cybersickness	14
Augmented reality instructions for construction toys enabled by accurate model registration and realistic object/hand occlusions	14
Concert experiences in virtual reality environments	14
Immersive machine learning for social attitude detection in virtual reality narrative games	13
Evaluation of the novelty effect in immersive Virtual Reality learning experiences	13
Usability, user experience and mental workload in a mobile Augmented Reality application for digital storytelling in cultural heritage	13
Promoting eco-driving behavior through multisensory stimulation: a preliminary study on the use of visual and haptic feedback in a virtual reality driving simulator	12
Virtual body representation for rehabilitation influences on motor performance of cerebral palsy children	12
Intelligence augmentation: rethinking the future of work by leveraging human performance and abilities	12
The relationships between the exploration of virtual space, its presence and entertainment in virtual reality, 360º and 2D	12
Educational UTAUT-based virtual reality acceptance scale: a validity and reliability study	12
Learner experience and evidence of cybersickness: design tensions in a virtual reality public transportation intervention for autistic adults	12
The virtualization of human–robot interactions: a user-centric workload assessment	12
Brain activity during cybersickness: a scoping review	12
The benchmark framework and exploratory study to investigate the feasibility of 360-degree video-based virtual reality to induce a full body illusion	12
Machine learning classification analysis for an adaptive virtual reality Stroop task	11
Immersive virtual reality and passive haptic interfaces to improve procedural learning in a formal training course for first responders	11
Towards estimating affective states in Virtual Reality based on behavioral data	11
ViewfinderVR: configurable viewfinder for selection of distant objects in VR	11
Investigating the effectiveness of immersive VR skill training and its link to physiological arousal	11
Trick the body trick the mind: avatar representation affects the perception of available action possibilities in virtual reality	11
Kinematics of aimed movements in ecological immersive virtual reality: a comparative study with real world	10
Harmonize: a shared environment for extended immersive entertainment	10
Fooling the size–weight illusion—Using augmented reality to eliminate the effect of size on perceptions of heaviness and sensorimotor prediction	10
Real-time camera-based eye gaze tracking using convolutional neural network: a case study on social media website	10
Predicting motor behavior: an efficient EEG signal processing pipeline to detect brain states with potential therapeutic relevance for VR-based neurorehabilitation	10
Investigation of spatial ability test completion times in virtual reality using a desktop display and the Gear VR	10
The ObReco-360°: a new ecological tool to memory assessment using 360° immersive technology	10
Designing effective virtual reality environments for pain management in burn-injured patients	10
Multimodal markers for technology-independent integration of augmented reality devices and surgical navigation systems	10
Drivers of immersive virtual reality adoption intention: a multi-group analysis in chemical industry settings	10
Evaluation of visual-induced motion sickness from head-mounted display using heartbeat evoked potential: a cognitive load-focused approach	10