Ambra Ferrari

TL;DR: The Italian version of the FCV-19S is valid and reliable in assessing fear of COVID-19 among the general Italian population, and its unidimensional properties are confirmed.

TL;DR: Overall, findings give evidences of benefits of video games training on cognitive and emotional skills in relation to the healthy adult population, especially on young adults.

TL;DR: An exploratory study aimed to compare the players’ experience while performing a video game in an immersive (virtual reality) and in a non-immersive (tablet) condition and the experimental design and results will be presented and discussed.

TL;DR: Comparing a horror game Resident Evil 7: Biohazard experienced through virtual reality as opposed to a non-immersive display modality and exploring differences in the usability and the emotional activation showed that playing a horror video game in virtual reality was not more difficult than playing in aNon-immersion displaymodality.

TL;DR: Evidence is given that the commercial virtual reality experience developed for the promotion of an urban renewal project was able to induce positive emotions and the positive emotions reported by users were associated with the sense of presence experienced in the virtual environment.