TITLE:
A Novel Approach for Assessing Prospective Memory Using Immersive Virtual Reality Task
AUTHORS:
Dong Dong, Lawrence K. F. Wong, Zhiwei Luo
KEYWORDS:
Prospective Memory, Virtual Reality, Memory Test
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.7 No.10,
September
22,
2016
ABSTRACT: Prospective
memory can maintain our ability to living independently and is important for our
daily lives. Evaluation of prospective memory can reflect the severity of cognitive
ability regression. Previous studies have developed slide based task and real-life
based task to evaluate prospective memory capability in different conditions. As
a new technology that can create a realistic test environment, immersive virtual
reality (VR) has not yet been widely used in this area. We developed a real-life
test environment using the immersive VR technology and asked the subjects to perform
common shopping task in it. By comparing the results with the ones from slide-based
task, we have demonstrated that immersive VR task has the potential to evaluate
perspective memory more accurately in daily life condition.