Lipp, Natalia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5738-6771
Dużmańska-Misiarczyk, Natalia http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7769-968X
Strojny, Agnieszka http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0625-383X
Strojny, Paweł http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6016-044X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Narodowe Centrum Badań i Rozwoju (POIR.01.01.01-00.0042/16)
Article History
Received: 9 August 2019
Accepted: 17 June 2020
First Online: 3 July 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. However, as the connection between the authors and a commercial company could be viewed as one, it was decided to provide more arguments in this matter. Firstly, the VR simulator described in the study may (and most probably will) be commercialized in the future. However, the R&D team is not responsible for sales and marketing in any way. The primary goal of the present paper is of purely research nature, both basic and applied. It could be used as an argument for the substantive value of the simulators as well. The project is co-founded by the National Centre for Research and Development in Poland and the structure of the grant proposal required pre-planning of any empirical studies to be conducted and declaration of intention to publish the results. The research part of the project was viewed as an important one, and the results of it are valuable separately from any future sales results. All information about the study design, the data collected during the experiment, and not only the confirmed hypotheses, but also the ones that were not confirmed in the study, is provided in the article text and the Supplementary Materials. The authors believe that this enhances the transparency of the presented study.