System for monitoring the impact of stressful computer game environment on human cognitive capabilities

U radu je opisan postupak izrade igre pucanja iz prvog lica kao ozbiljne igre unutar Unity okruženja te njena integracija s dostupnim VR uređajima: Oculus Rift i Delta Six. Razmatraju se rješenja problema koji se javljaju pri izradi realističnih VR aplikacija, poput potrebe za optimizacijom performansi i poboljšanje grafičke privlačnosti, te kako dizajnirati ozbiljnu igru kako bi pružala što bolje iskustvo igračima te ih educirala na intuitivan način. Svrha dotične igre je mjerenje utjecaja stresnih čimbenika: slikovnih i video prekida, na kognitivne performanse igrača u svrhu pomoći pri poboljšanju njihovih performansi u stvarnim životnim situacijama. Kako bi se dobili što relevantniji podatci o performansama razmatraju se i tehnike kako smanjiti nepoželjni efekt učenja igraća koji ponavljaju test više puta.This thesis contains methods for making a 3D first person shooter (FPS) serious game inside Unity engine and its integration with available VR devices: Oculus Rift and Delta Six. Different solutions to problems appearing in development of VR application are considered, such as need to optimize performance and increasing graphical fidelity. How to design a serious game to offer as good of an experience as possible and educate the players in an intuitive way has also been considered. The purpose of the developed game is tracking human cognitive performance when subjected to image and video stressors for the purpose of helping the players improve their performance in stressful real life situations. To make collected data as relevant as possible, different techniques are considered that can help reduce unwanted learning effect present in users repeating the same test multiple times