Virtual Nature: A Psychologically Beneficial Experience
| Autor: | Jamie Sherman, Laura M. Herman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Stress reduction
Relaxation (psychology) 05 social sciences Virtual reality 050105 experimental psychology Stress level 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Anxiety 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences medicine.symptom Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. Multimodal Interaction ISBN: 9783030216061 HCI (9) |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-21607-8_34 |
| Popis: | This study sought to determine which, if any, of the benefits conferred by experiences in nature are conferred by an equivalent Virtual Reality (VR) experience. To this end, previous VR users were immersed in a virtual forest environment. Post-immersion, participants were measured on a variety of metrics including stress level, relaxation level, and directed attention abilities – metrics that have been shown to be significantly modulated by exposure to physical nature. Our results indicate that experiences in virtual nature afford much the same psychological benefits of exposure to physical nature, but they did not show the same kinds of attentional benefits. Experiencing nature in VR significantly decreased self-reported anxiety levels. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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