Guidelines for the Development of Immersive Virtual Reality Software for Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology: The Development of Virtual Reality Everyday Assessment Lab (VR-EAL), A Neuropsychological Test Battery in Immersive Virtual Reality.

Kourtesis, Panagiotis; Korre, Danai; Collina, Simona; Doumas, Leonidas A. A.; MacPherson, Sarah E.

doi:10.36227/techrxiv.13857515.v1

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“…Nevertheless, future studies may want to consider the use of optimal hardware as it reduces the risk of developing symptoms of cyber-sickness ( Kourtesis et al, 2019 ). Moreover, software features such as good graphics, spatialized audio, haptics, etc., provide the necessary foundations to induce strong placement and plausibility illusions to significantly reduce the risk of developing VR induced symptoms and effects ( Kourtesis et al, 2020 ). Future studies may want to consider both software and hardware improvements for clinical and research purposes.…”

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Exploring the Use of Virtual Reality for the Delivery and Practice of Stress-Management Exercises

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BackgroundMindfulness-based interventions may benefit healthcare professionals with burnout symptoms. Virtual reality (VR) may reduce initial difficulty of engaging in mindfulness exercises and increase participants’ engagement through immersion and presence.AimThe aim was to investigate how VR affects participants’ experience of engagement with mindfulness practice, and its impact on quality of practice and negative mood states.MethodsFifty-one healthcare professionals were randomized to receive either a visualization or non-visualization mindfulness practice, to compare the quality of practice through the use of audio only vs. with a virtual reality interface. Selected self-reported measures were collected during the session (immersion, quality and difficulty of practice, mood states and likelihood for future practice).ResultsResults showed that order instead of type of modality administered made a difference in quality of mindfulness practice. A greater sense of presence was reported with VR if administered after audio (F = 4.810, p = 0.033, Partial η2 = 0.093). Further, participants described difficulty practicing with audio if administered after VR (F = 4.136, p = 0.048, Partial η2 = 0.081). Additionally, lower mood disturbance was reported with VR if administered after audio (F = 8.116, p = 0.006, Partial η2 = 0.147). Qualitative responses echoed a preference for VR to engage better, in addition to improved mood states after practice.ConclusionFindings suggest that VR has the potential to provide healthcare professionals with an alternative or a supplement to conventional mindfulness practice.

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“…Immersive virtual reality (VR) technology has existed for 50 years ( Slater, 2009 ) and has been regarded as a promising and clinical tool ( Kourtesis et al, 2019a ). It enables researchers to collect advanced cognitive and behavioral data through dynamic stimuli and interactions in an ecologically valid environment, and it can be combined with non-invasive brain imaging techniques ( Kourtesis et al, 2020 ). Virtual environments are sophisticated human-computer interfaces that can be used for a wide variety of applications ( Skarbez et al, 2017 ).…”

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An Empirical Comparative Study on the Two Methods of Eliciting Singers’ Emotions in Singing: Self-Imagination and VR Training

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Front. Neurosci.

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Emotional singing can affect vocal performance and the audience’s engagement. Chinese universities use traditional training techniques for teaching theoretical and applied knowledge. Self-imagination is the predominant training method for emotional singing. Recently, virtual reality (VR) technologies have been applied in several fields for training purposes. In this empirical comparative study, a VR training task was implemented to elicit emotions from singers and further assist them with improving their emotional singing performance. The VR training method was compared against the traditional self-imagination method. By conducting a two-stage experiment, the two methods were compared in terms of emotions’ elicitation and emotional singing performance. In the first stage, electroencephalographic (EEG) data were collected from the subjects. In the second stage, self-rating reports and third-party teachers’ evaluations were collected. The EEG data were analyzed by adopting the max-relevance and min-redundancy algorithm for feature selection and the support vector machine (SVM) for emotion recognition. Based on the results of EEG emotion classification and subjective scale, VR can better elicit the positive, neutral, and negative emotional states from the singers than not using this technology (i.e., self-imagination). Furthermore, due to the improvement of emotional activation, VR brings the improvement of singing performance. The VR hence appears to be an effective approach that may improve and complement the available vocal music teaching methods.

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Guidelines for the Development of Immersive Virtual Reality Software for Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology: The Development of Virtual Reality Everyday Assessment Lab (VR-EAL), A Neuropsychological Test Battery in Immersive Virtual Reality.

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Exploring the Use of Virtual Reality for the Delivery and Practice of Stress-Management Exercises

Exploring the Use of Virtual Reality for the Delivery and Practice of Stress-Management Exercises

An Empirical Comparative Study on the Two Methods of Eliciting Singers’ Emotions in Singing: Self-Imagination and VR Training

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