Gennaro Ruggiero

TL;DR: In an immersive virtual reality (IVR) study as mentioned in this paper, participants determined reachability and comfort distances from virtual male/female children, young/old adults while standing still (passive) or approaching them (active).

TL;DR: Findings reveal that peripersonal reaching and interpersonal comfort spaces share a common motor nature and are sensitive, at different degrees, to social modulation, and social processing seems embodied and grounded in the body acting in space.

TL;DR: Peripersonal-action space, in comparison with interpersonal-social space, is similarly sensitive to the emotional valence of stimuli, and it is proposed that this similarity could reflect a common adaptive mechanism shared by these spaces, presumably at different degrees, for ensuring self-protection functions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the audio-visual impact of a projected motorway project on people by means of immersive virtual reality technology and found that noise due to the new infrastructure seems to exert a negative influence on short term verbal memory and to increase both visual and noise annoyance.

TL;DR: The authors found that unfamiliar participants performed better when the orientation of triads was closer to the learning perspective (0° and 45°) and corresponded to front rather than to back positions.