Ahn J C, Lee O
Bratisl Lek Listy. 2013;114(10):595-602. doi: 10.4149/bll_2013_128.
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).
本研究提供了实证证据，证明酒店嵌入式虚拟现实网站中的叙事视频片段有助于缓解旅行焦虑。尽管已证明虚拟现实功能确实能在一定程度上缓解旅行焦虑，但如果在虚拟现实网站中加入关于酒店重要方面的带旁白视频片段，就能打造出更强大的虚拟现实网站。我们认为这些重要方面包括：1. 逃生路线；2. 周边社区信息，这些是从现有的焦虑症以及旅行焦虑研究中得出的。因此，我们制作了一个展示并讲解酒店房间逃生路线的视频片段，以及另一个展示并讲解周边社区的视频片段。然后，我们让受试者使用这个增强版的酒店虚拟现实网站并填写问卷，进行了相关实验。结果证实了我们的假设，即使用带有酒店网站叙事视频片段的嵌入式虚拟现实功能所带来的心理缓解程度与旅行焦虑程度之间存在统计学上的显著关系（表2、图3，参考文献26）。
