The Spheres & Shield Maze Task: A Virtual Reality Serious Game for the Assessment of Risk Taking in Decision Making
Risk taking (RT) is an essential component in decision-making process that depicts the propensity to make riskydecisions. RT assessment has traditionally focused on self-report questionnaires. These classical tools haveshown clear distance from real-life responses. Behavioral tasks assess human beha...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) |
| Repositorio: | O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/151818 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10609/151818 https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2019.0761 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | risk taking serious games virtual reality evaluation methodologies implicit measures |
| Sumario: | Risk taking (RT) is an essential component in decision-making process that depicts the propensity to make riskydecisions. RT assessment has traditionally focused on self-report questionnaires. These classical tools haveshown clear distance from real-life responses. Behavioral tasks assess human behavior with more fidelity, butstill show some limitations related to transferability. A way to overcome these constraints is to take advan-tage from virtual reality (VR), to recreate real-simulated situations that might arise from performance-basedassessments, supporting RT research. This article presents results of a pilot study in which 41 individualsexplored a gamified VR environment: the Spheres & Shield Maze Task (SSMT). By eliciting implicit be-havioral measures, we found relationships between scores obtained in the SSMT and self-reported risk-relatedconstructs, as engagement in risky behaviors and marijuana consumption. We conclude that decontextualizedVirtual Reality Serious Games are appropriate to assess RT, since they could be used as a cross-disciplinary toolto assess individuals’ capabilities under the stealth assessment paradigm. |
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