Abstract The researchers have been interested to explore the impact of personality traits on second or foreign language learning. The current study is an attempt to investigate whether there exists a statistically significant relationship between introvert and extrovert EFL learners’ willingness to communicate and ambiguity tolerance. To this end, a total of 150 EFL learners completed the Intro...

The role played by cognitive style upon sense of presence has been addressed in the presence literature. However, no experimental study was carried out in order to investigate this hypothesized relationship. This paper highlights the relationship between each of four bi-polar dimensions of cognitive style, such as extraversion–introversion, sensing–intuition, thinking– feeling and judging –perc...

0-7803-7952-7/03/$17.00  2003 IEEE. Abstract – This present study examined the effects of animated characters and presenting voices on comprehension and attention performance in learning from a multimedia presentation. This study also investigated the effect of introversion/extroversion in learning performance and rating affected by animated character. Comprehension was affected by neither ani...

There is a lack in the literature of studies that investigate the human factors involved in the engagement of presence. The present study is addressed to investigate the influence of five user’s characteristics (spatial intelligence, personality, cognitive style, computer experience and test anxiety) on the sense of presence. This study is the first one to investigate the relationship between s...