Designing Mind(set) and Setting for Profound Emotional Experiences in Virtual Reality

Kitson, Alexandra; Stepanova, Ekaterina R.; Aguilar, Ivan Abdo; Wainwright, Natasha; Riecke, Bernhard E.

doi:10.1145/3357236.3395560

Cited by 16 publications

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“…Other than the limited range of emotional states, the review by Montana et al [26] also highlights that many studies done in HCI seem to evaluate VR as positive technology to elicit positive change in its users. This includes inducing happiness, relaxation or a mindful state of mind [21,34]. Another review by Wagener et al [43] suggests similar results regarding commercially available VR applications.…”

Section: Emotion Regulation Of Complex Emotionsmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…However, when analysing recent VR applications for ER [26], most use VR to induce emotions in its users, mostly for anxiety therapy [25] or for relaxation purposes [21,34,42]. This position paper argues that VR interventions to support ER should provide means for users to express their own complex emotions and thus support reflection and a deeper engagement with those emotions (fig.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Reflecting on Emotions within VR Mood Worlds

Wagener

Niess

2021

Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of The

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Virtual reality applications can be an effective tool for emotion regulation and therefore support emotional well-being and mental health. However, many VR applications focus on inducing (positive) emotions and there is little research on how users can express their emotions autonomously at home. Thus, there is a need to inquire how emotions can be expressed independently in virtual environments. To that end, this position paper presents VR Mood Worlds, a VR application for ER intervention, that allows users to visualise their emotions and thus supports emotion regulation and emotional well-being.

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Section: Emotion Regulation Of Complex Emotionsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflecting on Emotions within VR Mood Worlds

Wagener

Niess

2021

Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of The

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“…The interest in commercial mobile and VR well-being systems is steadily increasing. Concurrently, research established guidelines for designing visual content of VR apps used to elicit positive change [29,46] and outlined the design space of VR well-being apps with the means of a systematic literature review [28]. We extend these approaches by analysing commercial well-being mobile and VR apps based on insights derived from expert interviews with a specific focus on ER.…”

Section: The Potential Of Mobile and Vr Technologies For Mentalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Additionally, 10 therapists stressed that therapy should offer a space for unbiased emotional exploration and expression. This aspect was only mentioned once in regard to VR, which was surprising because VR is considered an efficient medium for artistic expression [9,29]. Although also switching between virtual settings, e.g.…”

Section: Vr Appsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…by adjusting the outer environment to inner feelings (one therapist gave the example of visually expressing anger by a black thunderstorm), and d) can be a gamified process which can relieve users by having fun in the process of creating an own safe place or by adjusting the outer environment according to inner feelings. Research highlights the potential of VR to offer such playful artistic expression [29], which improve one's well-being [28].…”

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The Role of Mobile and Virtual Reality Applications to Support Well-Being: An Expert View and Systematic App Review

Wagener

Duong

Schöning

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Interactive technologies for autonomous mental health management are on the rise due to limited therapy access and stigma. However, most commercial mental health apps are neither theory-based nor clinically tested, and psychological theories are not easily accessible to app designers. Thus, it remains unclear if current mobile and VR mental health apps meet therapists' expectations. To address this gap, we conducted interviews (N = 11) to build an understanding about current therapeutic practices with a focus on emotion regulation and their applicability to mobile apps. We then conducted a systematic app review of 60 mental-health-related mobile and VR apps applying the themes identified in our interviews as an understanding lens. We draw upon the identified discrepancies to pinpoint design implications for better embedding lived therapeutic practice into mental health apps. We contribute by providing a common grounding between therapists and developers on the features and properties of well-being mobile and VR apps.

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