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Virtual reality (VR) is increasingly being used as a research platform forinvestigating human responses to environmental variables. While VR providestremendous advantages in terms of variable isolation and manipulation, and easeof data-collection, some researchers have expressed concerns about theecological validity of VR-based findings. In the current study we replicated areal-world, multi-level educational facility in VR, and compared data collectedin the VR and real-world environments as participants (n=36) completedidentical wayfinding tasks. We found significant differences in all of themeasures used, including distance covered, number of mistakes made, time fortask completion, spatial memory, extent of backtracking, observation ofdirectional signs, perceived uncertainty levels, perceived cognitive workload,and perceived task difficulty. We also analyzed potential age-related effectsto look for heightened VR/real response discrepancies among older adultparticipants (>55 years) compared to younger adults. This analysis yielded nosignificant effects of age. Finally, we examined the spatial distribution ofself-reported wayfinding uncertainty across the building floorplan, findingthat areas in which uncertainty was most pronounced were similar between thereal-world and VR settings. Thus, participants appeared to be responding to thesame environmental features in the real and VR conditions, but the extent ofthese responses was significantly different. Overall, the findings suggest thatwhen VR is used to contrast varying environmental design conditions theresulting data should be interpreted cautiously and should not be generalizedinto real-world conclusions without further validation.

Comparing Spatial Navigation and Human Environment Interaction in Virtual Reality vs. Identical Real Environments across the Adult Lifespan