ИСТИНА

The goal was to identify the specifics of multitasking (parallel solution of multisensory cognitive tasks) in a virtual environment such as CAVE. Research participants (50 students) were invited to (1) listen and repeat texts in front of a virtual audience (a classroom with 12 avatars as students) and (2) Monitor the behavior of virtual avatars, i.e. whether they were attentive to the texts which the participants reproduced. The behavior of the avatars was the same for all research participants. Errors in listening/reproducing and in monitoring the audience were subjected to a confirmatory factor and path analysis. The results show that errors in parallel activities do not significantly affect each other.