Age and gender effects on presence, user experience and usability in virtual environments–first insights

• Mario Lorenz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mario Lorenz, Jennifer Brade

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mario.lorenz@mb.tu-chemnitz.de

  Affiliations Professorship for Production Systems and Processes, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany, Department of Orthopedics, Trauma and Plastic Surgery, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Division of Macroscopic and Clinical Anatomy, Gottfried Schatz Research Center, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8991-7848

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• Jennifer Brade ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mario Lorenz, Jennifer Brade

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Professorship for Production Systems and Processes, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany

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• Philipp Klimant,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Professorship for Production Systems and Processes, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany

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• Christoph-E. Heyde,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Trauma and Plastic Surgery, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Niels Hammer

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Orthopedics, Trauma and Plastic Surgery, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Division of Macroscopic and Clinical Anatomy, Gottfried Schatz Research Center, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria, Division of Biomechatronics, Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU, Dresden, Germany

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