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Rev Elec Psic Izt 2019; 22 (3)

Presence, cybersickness, anxiety, and heart rate variability in a non-clinical population using virtual reality environments designed for specific phobias' treatment

Distéfano MJ, Labandeira LP, Tarnogol FM, Mesurado B

Language: Spanish
References: 57
Page: 2705-2732
PDF size: 779.17 Kb.


ABSTRACT

The current study assesses the sense of presence, cybersickness and anxiety responses in subjects of general population who were exposed to 3 virtual environments designed to treat phobias. The sample consisted in 37 Argentine participants (15 male, 22 female) between ages 20 and 40. Instruments utilized were the Igroup Presence Questionnaire, Simulator Sickness Questionnaire, STAI and a holter for heart rate variability. All virtual environments generated sufficient feeling of presence. Cybersickness was only registered in the Elevator scenario. The Apartment and Spiders environments have shown not to be anxiety triggers within this population. As for Elevator, an increase in the level of state anxiety was generated. A possible hypothesis to account for this fact might be that reported anxiety responds to movement simulated in the virtual scenario while on the other two the subjects remained static. Regarding sensory conflict, a follow up study in the Elevator environment should be done, eliminating movement and exposing subjects to the stimuli while static at different heights. Future studies should consider broadening the size of the sample and studying clinical population to compare results.


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