DYNECOM: Augmenting Empathy in VR with Dyadic Synchrony Neurofeedback

Järvelä, Sanna; Salminen, Matti; Ruonala, Antti; Timonen, Janne; Mannermaa, Kristiina; Ravaja, Niklas

doi:10.24251/hicss.2019.509

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“…Authors concluded "that intersubjective abilities and social cognition could be more easily cultivated in real contact with other people than through imaginary encounters, as common in single meditation practices" (Bornemann & Singer, 2013, p. 453). A recent study on empathy (Järvelä et al, 2019) supports this impression. Participants (pairs, not couples) generated compassionate feelings towards a non-active avatar (solitary condition) or to an active avatar representing their partner (dyadic condition) in virtual reality.…”

Section: Evidence From Kindness-based Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 81%

Better together than alone? Investigating dyadic compassion meditation in an experimental study

Schültke,

Warth,

Alpers

et al. 2023

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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While meditation is commonly practiced by individuals on their own, several programmes have incorporated dyadic forms, too. However, the setting – meditating alone or in dyads – and its impact on the effects of meditation have not yet been examined. We expected that dyadic compassion meditation (CM) may improve perceived social closeness more compared to closely-matched individual CM. N = 50 couples were randomly assigned to do a brief 15-min CM induction either together with their partner or individually. Social closeness was rated by both partners. Secondary outcomes were positive and negative affect as well as parasympathetic response, indicated by heart rate variability (HRV). Due to the dyadic data structure, multilevel models were tested. We found no difference between dyadic and individual CM in self-report. After both forms social closeness and positive affect were improved, while negative affect decreased. Only HRV differed between the two conditions over time: while HRV significantly decreased in the individual condition, there was no such change in the dyadic condition. The accompanying physiological profile suggests that CM may involve effort at least in the individual CM. Done individually or with a partner, brief CM can foster social closeness and improve affect and can be employed to improve socio-emotional well-being.

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Section: Evidence From Kindness-based Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 81%

Better together than alone? Investigating dyadic compassion meditation in an experimental study

Schültke,

Warth,

Alpers

et al. 2023

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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“…Distributed [29], [3], [26], [27], [30], [31], [33], [41], [45], [58], [60], [61], [63], [65], [70], [85], [94], [95], [107], [109], [113], [82], [125], [135] [52], [67], [73], [72], [80], [78], [75], [81],…”

Section: Physical Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In 12 studies, users only received feedback about states of co-users and not their own [3,29,30,45,55,65,87,91,94,110,125,133], while in four studies only aggregated measures of physiology were shown to both players [83,100,107,142]. Six studies combined the sharing physiology of all users with additional aggregated measures like average metrics [17] and synchrony level between users [46,60,61,82,113]. One study manipulated both receiving biofeedback from self and others, instead of only others' [40].…”

Section: Articulating the Physiological-social Interaction Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

“…While excluded from our formal qualitative analysis, it must be noted that many quantitative studies in the review measured empathy or its sub-constructs. These found that social biofeedback leads to increased emotional perspective-taking [81,136] and self-reported empathy [60,61,82,95]. However, both positive [136] and null results have been reported for emotional convergence.…”

Section: Theme 3: Empathymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We found three main themes related to others-oriented social-emotional skills: (1) empathy, (2) compassion and caregiving, and (3) relationship skills for authentic social connection. Empathy in itself was the target of a few studies, e.g., [27,52,61,81,82,95]. It is a particularly relevant construct as nonverbal communication cues are critical in empathy development [50], and thus their absence in technology-mediated communication constitutes a significant barrier to human-human interaction [13].…”

Section: Others-oriented Competencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Shared User Interfaces of Physiological Data: Systematic Review of Social Biofeedback Systems and Contexts in HCI

Clara

Wang

Cho

2022

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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As an emerging interaction paradigm, physiological computing is increasingly being used to both measure and feed back information about our internal psychophysiological states. While most applications of physiological computing are designed for individual use, recent research has explored how biofeedback can be socially shared between multiple users to augment human-human communication. Reflecting on the empirical progress in this area of study, this paper presents a systematic review of 64 studies to characterize the interaction contexts and effects of social biofeedback systems. Our findings highlight the importance of physio-temporal and social contextual factors surrounding physiological data sharing as well as how it can promote social-emotional competences on three different levels: intrapersonal, interpersonal, and task-focused. We also present the Social Biofeedback Interactions framework to articulate the current physiological-social interaction space. We use this to frame our discussion of the implications and ethical considerations for future research and design of social biofeedback interfaces.CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI): Interaction techniques; Interactive systems and tools; Interaction paradigms; Interaction devices; HCI theory, concepts and models.

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Background The aim of this study was to gain a better understanding of interpersonal coordination (i.e., covariation over time) in different modalities (e.g., physiology, language) during psychotherapy and their importance for understanding the dynamics of psychotherapeutic interaction and efficacy. Methods We conducted a systematic review of all studies examining some form of interpersonal coordination in a psychotherapeutic context. Results We first summarize details of the included studies such as gender composition, therapy types, and methods used. The collation of these studies provided evidence that, during psychotherapeutic contexts, interpersonal coordination occurs in physiology, movements, interpersonal displays, and language/vocalizations. Further, it also showed that movement coordination was most frequently associated with psychotherapy outcomes, physiological coordination was most frequently associated with empathy, and coordination in a variety of modalities including language/vocalizations were most frequently associated with therapeutic alliance. Conclusions We discuss these results, shortcomings with the current literature, and highlight three crucial questions for future research. Research on interpersonal coordination in psychotherapy has potential to advance the both the research and practice of psychotherapy.

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DYNECOM: Augmenting Empathy in VR with Dyadic Synchrony Neurofeedback

Cited by 11 publications

References 30 publications

Better together than alone? Investigating dyadic compassion meditation in an experimental study

Better together than alone? Investigating dyadic compassion meditation in an experimental study

Shared User Interfaces of Physiological Data: Systematic Review of Social Biofeedback Systems and Contexts in HCI

Interpersonal Coordination Dynamics in Psychotherapy: A Systematic Review

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