Mood Induction Using Virtual Reality: a Systematic Review of Recent Findings

Bernardo, Pedro Diniz; Bains, Amrita; Westwood, Sophia; Mograbi, Daniel C.

doi:10.1007/s41347-020-00152-9

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“…There are already reviews about VR, emotion induction, wellbeing and their links to mental health. A recent systematic review confirmed that VR technology is efficient for inducing both positive and negative emotions in lab-settings (Bernardo et al, 2021). Other reviews highlighted VR's potential for improving mental health (Freeman et al, 2017;Jerdan et al, 2018), and elder's quality of life and emotions (D'Cunha et al, 2019;Kim et al, 2019).…”

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“…Recent research has established that VR is arousing (Felnhofer et al, 2015;Marín-Morales et al, 2018) and is an effective tool for inducing emotions in laboratory settings (Bernardo et al, 2021). More precisely, VR has proven effective in inducing various positive emotions, such as joy, relaxation (e.g., see Anderson et al, 2017;Serrano et al, 2016) and more complex emotions such as awe (i.e., feeling of wonder when confronted with vast and transcending stimuli, Chirico et al, 2017;Chirico et al, 2018) and the sublime (i.e., feeling of "amazement tinged with fear" in response to vast or powerful stimuli, Chirico et al, 2021).…”

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Because I’m Happy—An Overview on Fostering Positive Emotions Through Virtual Reality

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Vergilino-Perez

Gricourt³

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Front. Virtual Real.

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In recent years, an increased demand for improving mental health and well-being led to developing procedures capable of enhancing positive experiences. One highly attractive candidate for evoking positive experiences is Virtual Reality (VR), as VR enables users to experience various situations in controlled and safe environments. This overview first investigates how positive emotions, well-being and VR are interconnected. Then, an overview about how and why to induce positive emotions in adult users is provided. Methodological and ethical considerations about VR technology, measurements of VR’s efficacy and user characteristics are reviewed. It emerges that VR is efficient in inducing positive emotions across the adult lifespan and in various settings. Levels of immersion, interactivity, Virtual environment contents, sensory modalities involved and users’ characteristics emerged as key determinants for successfully inducing positive emotions with VR. The main applications of positive VR experiences consist in using VR for relaxation, stress and pain management, motivation for physical activities, and gives promising results for apathy treatment in elderly users. Although VR is efficient in eliciting positive emotions and experiences, the underlying operating mechanisms remain unclear and are yet to be further investigated. Finally, the need for a user-centered approach when designing positive VR experiences, clear guidelines for the use of VR, and a better documentation of its potential adverse effects are addressed.

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Because I’m Happy—An Overview on Fostering Positive Emotions Through Virtual Reality

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Vergilino-Perez

Gricourt³

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Front. Virtual Real.

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“…Consequently, users feel actually present and involved into the VE: Being able to manipulate their surroundings, but also to be the subject to the virtual events and actions significantly increases the VE's personal and emotional relevance (Slater and Wilbur, 1997;Kisker et al, 2020;Schöne et al, 2019;Schöne et al, 2020). Over the last couple of years, it has repeatedly been demonstrated that well-designed VEs are capable of eliciting strong emotional responses (e.g., Diemer et al, 2015;Felnhofer et al, 2015; for review see; Bernardo et al, 2020), that even keep up with their real-life counterparts (Higuera-Trujillo et al, 2017;Chirico and Gaggioli, 2019). For example, the exposure to great virtual heights evokes fear responses consistently across various setups as assessed by self-reports, psychophysiological and behavioral responses (Kisker et al, 2019a;Biedermann et al, 2017;Gromer et al, 2018Gromer et al, , 2019Wolf et al, 2020;Asjat et al, 2018).…”

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Authentic Fear Responses in Virtual Reality: A Mobile EEG Study on Affective, Behavioral and Electrophysiological Correlates of Fear

Kisker

Lange

Flinkenflügel

et al. 2021

Front. Virtual Real.

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Fear is an evolutionary adaption to a hazardous environment, linked to numerous complex behavioral responses, e.g., the fight-or-flight response, suiting their respective environment. However, for the sake of experimental control, fear is mainly investigated under rather artificial laboratory conditions. The latter transform these evolutionary adaptions into artificial responses, like keystrokes. The immersive, multidimensional character of virtual reality (VR) enables realistic behavioral responses, overcoming aforementioned limitations. To investigate authentic fear responses from a holistic perspective, participants explored either a negative or a neutral VR cave. To promote real-life behavior, we built a physical replica of the cave, providing haptic sensations. Electrophysiological correlates of fear-related approach and avoidance tendencies, i.e., frontal alpha asymmetries (FAA) were evaluated. To our knowledge, this is the first study to simultaneously capture complex behavior and associated electrophysiological correlates under highly immersive conditions. Participants in the negative condition exhibited a broad spectrum of realistic fear behavior and reported intense negative affect as opposed to participants in the neutral condition. Despite these affective and behavioral differences, the groups could not be distinguished based on the FAAs for the greater part of the cave exploration. Taking the specific behavioral responses into account, the obtained FAAs could not be reconciled with well-known FAA models. Consequently, putting laboratory-based models to the test under realistic conditions shows that they may not unrestrictedly predict realistic behavior. As the VR environment facilitated non-mediated and realistic emotional and behavioral responses, our results demonstrate VR’s high potential to increase the ecological validity of scientific findings (video abstract: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qROsPOp87l4&feature=youtu.be).

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“…Studies VR [6], [5], [7], [12], [13], [15], [17], [18], [20], [21], [22], [23], [26], [27], [30], [31], [32], [33], [34], [36], [35], [37], [38], [41], [42], [43], [47], [49], [50], [54], [57], [59], [60], [61] EDA [2], [3], [8], [9], [11], [12], [16], [20], [25], [26], [27], [28], [29], [30], [31], [32], [33], [34...…”

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“…These sensors provide time-altering indicators for the human brain's cognitive state through physical and psychological accuracy [16], [19]. The EDA has bio-signals that include skin conductance and changes in acceleration, pressure, sound, flow, and temperature [8], [50], [71]. Accurate monitoring of EDA provides an individual's emotional, cognitive, and mental state framework.…”

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Virtual Reality and Electrodermal Activity to Support Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Literature Review

Patient¹

2022

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<p>This review explores mild cognitive impairment support, focusing on virtual reality (VR) applications coupled with electrodermal activity (EDA). A systematic review and meta-analysis using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement were performed from an original inquiry of 698 articles from 11 digital libraries. An independent review of selected studies assessed the risk of bias and obtained data. The meta-analysis included 44 studies, with a total number of 9099 participants in all the papers reviewed were split into (5200) cognitive or (2304) non-cognitive impairments. The proportion of cognitive versus non-cognitive had a first risk difference (RD = 0.32; p-value = 0.0001). The comparison of female to male participants showed (OR = 6.10; p-value = 0.00001). Anxiety, depression, and stress conditions had the effect of (SMD = -0.39; p-value = 0.09). In the analysis, the general lack of research restricts virtual reality and electrodermal activity to sustain mild cognitive impairments. Forty-five excluded papers applied data from pre-2017. Two studies with 46 participants had a result of (SMD = 0.60; p-value = 0.31). Identifying VR and EDA-based studies investigating training and rehabilitation to support MCI symptoms in individuals.</p>

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Mood Induction Using Virtual Reality: a Systematic Review of Recent Findings

Cited by 42 publications

References 97 publications

Because I’m Happy—An Overview on Fostering Positive Emotions Through Virtual Reality

Because I’m Happy—An Overview on Fostering Positive Emotions Through Virtual Reality

Authentic Fear Responses in Virtual Reality: A Mobile EEG Study on Affective, Behavioral and Electrophysiological Correlates of Fear

Virtual Reality and Electrodermal Activity to Support Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Literature Review

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