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The restorative influence of virtual reality environment design

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dc.contributor.authorNicoly, Jalynn Blu, author
dc.contributor.authorMasters, Rachel, author
dc.contributor.authorGaddy, Vidya, author
dc.contributor.authorInterrante, Victoria, author
dc.contributor.authorOrtega, Francisco, author
dc.contributor.authorACM, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-17T19:12:10Z
dc.date.available2024-12-17T19:12:10Z
dc.date.issued2024-08-30
dc.description.abstractVirtual reality (VR) could support the need for easily accessible therapeutic techniques, such as viewing art and immersing oneself in nature. Our study searches for the optimal virtual environment (VE) by exploring whether beauty in moving and still VEs contributes to stress reduction and perceived restorativeness. We hypothesized that the moving forest environment would result in the most stress reduction, while the abstract art would result in the least, with additional comparisons to a still forest environment and a control condition. The control condition took place outside the virtual headset to simulate what stress reduction would look like without a nature intervention. After working with 78 participants, we found an increase in statistical significance for stress reduction and perceived restorativeness in the moving forest condition compared to the control, as measured by the Zuckerman Inventory of Personal Reactions (ZIPERS) positive affect and the Perceived Restorativeness Scale (PRS). Additionally, the PRS and heart rate measures showed greater restorativeness in the moving forest condition than in the abstract art condition. Heart rate measures also showed statistical significance between the forest image condition and the control and moving forest conditions.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationJalynn Blu Nicoly, Rachel Masters, Vidya Gaddy, Victoria Interrante, and Francisco Ortega. 2024. The Restorative Influence of Virtual Reality Environment Design. In ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2024 (SAP ’24), August 30–31, 2024, Dublin, Ireland. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3675231.3675244
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1145/3675231.3675244
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/239726
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
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dc.rights©Jalynn Blu Nicoly, et al. ACM 2024. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in SAP '24, https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3675231.3675244.
dc.subjectvirtual reality
dc.subjectforest bathing
dc.subjectnature
dc.subjectabstract art
dc.subjectstress reduction
dc.titleThe restorative influence of virtual reality environment design
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