Research Article
The Evolution of Hot Topics in the field of Psychology in Virtual Reality Based on the Visualization Analysis of WOS Core Database (2011-2021)
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.2-12-2022.2327922, author={Guoyu Liu and Zhifang He}, title={The Evolution of Hot Topics in the field of Psychology in Virtual Reality Based on the Visualization Analysis of WOS Core Database (2011-2021)}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information, Control and Automation, ICICA 2022, December 2-4, 2022, Chongqing, China}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICICA}, year={2023}, month={3}, keywords={virtual reality; psychology; visualization; knowledge graph; citespace}, doi={10.4108/eai.2-12-2022.2327922} }- Guoyu Liu
Zhifang He
Year: 2023
The Evolution of Hot Topics in the field of Psychology in Virtual Reality Based on the Visualization Analysis of WOS Core Database (2011-2021)
ICICA
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.2-12-2022.2327922
Abstract
Virtual reality technology has been used far and wide in the field of psychology. However, previous studies have not demonstrated the application status, evolution trend and research hotspots of virtual reality technology in various branches of psychology. Therefore, it is necessary to reveal the current research state of this field objectively and comprehensively, effectively excavate the potential hot research issues from many papers, trace the change path, and carry out visual analysis. A total of 1336 papers with the theme of "virtual reality" and "psychology" included in the core database of WOS from 2011 to 2021 were selected as the research objects. Citespace and other visualization software were employed to draw several maps of author, institution cooperation and keyword co-occurrence. This study explores the research hotspots and mainstream in this field, as well as states explicitly the future development emphasis for virtual reality in psychology research.