Table 3.
User experience measures and session characteristics.
| Session characteristics | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Rater | M (SD) or n (%) | |
| Completed session a | Session leader | 23 (100%) | |
| Exposure duration (minutes) b | Session leader | 97.22 (23.74) | |
| No calls to session leader | Session leader | 20 (87%) | |
| Reasons for calls (multiple choice) | Session leader | – | |
| Assistance with application required, but participant could have resolved issue themselves | 3 (12.5%) | ||
| Assistance with equipment required, but participant could have resolved issue themselves | 1 (4.2%) | ||
| Application malfunction (not resolvable by participant) | 0 (0%) | ||
| Equipment malfunction (not resolvable by participant) | 0 (0%) | ||
| Participant too distressed to continue and received basic emotional support | 0 (0%) | ||
| Participant too distress to continue and received support requiring clinical expertise | 0 (0%) | ||
| No call made | 20 (83.3%) | ||
| No required visits by session leader (frequency) | Session leader | 21 (91.3%) | |
| Use of in-game pause function | Participant | – | |
| None | 10 (43.5%) | ||
| Yes: too distressing | 3 (13%) | ||
| Yes: other reasons | 8 (34.8%) | ||
| Yes: by accident | 2 (8.7%) | ||
| Levels restarted or skipped (frequency) c | Participant | 0.77 (1.31) | |
| Application restarts (frequency) | Participant | 0.30 (0.56) | |
| All ten levels completed (frequency) d | Participant | 22 (95.7%) | |
| In-session breaks (frequency) | Participant | 1.52 (1.31) | |
| Total duration of breaks (minutes) e | Participant | 5.77 (5.53) | |
| User Experience Measures | |||
| Variable | Rater | M (SD) or n (%) | Correlation with FSQ score decrease |
| Language comprehensibility | Participant | – | – |
| No difficulties | 21 (91.3%) | ||
| Some difficulties | 2 (8.7%) | ||
| Great difficulties | 0 (0%) | ||
| Visual acuity (theoretical range: 0–10) f | Participant | 6.04 (1.74) | r =.201, p =.357 |
| Gatineau Presence Scale: positive score (theoretical range: 0–20) | Participant | 12.39 (4.62) | r =.272, p =.209 |
| Gatineau Presence Scale: negative score (theoretical range: 0–20) | Participant | 13.83 (3.33) | r = −.229, p =.292 |
| SUDs maximum (0–100) g | Participant | 69.09 (24.49) | r =.054, p =.805 |
| SUDs final (0–100) g | Participant | 48.57 (32.23) | r = −.035, p =.874 |
| SUDs maximum minus final (habituation) | Participant | 20.5 (21.6) | r =.11, p =.60 |
| Cybersickness score (range: 0–48) | Participant | 10.43 (6.32) | r =.084, p =.705 |
a
Defined as either completing all levels or using all allocated time.
b
Time from session leader leaving the room to either receiving a call from the participants (all levels finished) or ending the session when available time had elapsed.
c
One outlier who reported 20,000 restarts removed.
d
The remaining participant completed nine levels.
e
One outlier who reported 90 minute pause removed.
f
Verbal anchors “lousy” (0) and “perfect” (10).
g
Participants asked to remember the subjective units of distress (SUD) reported in-app during application use, both the maximum and final value.