Nebula: Artistic Somaesthetic Appreciation with Biosignals in Virtual Reality

Baldursson, Birgir Rafn; Peterson, David; Gamboa, Mafalda

doi:10.1145/3547522.3547710

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“…The 3D digital strokes of Tilt Brush were only an instance of how therapeutic artmaking and art therapy manifest in VR. New forms of artistic expression are beginning to emerge through VR, such as generating graphics using biomarkers or simple gestures (Song et al, 2019;Baldursson et al, 2022). Some of these art forms are made available thanks to the combination of VR with other technologies, such as the Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI), where brain activity data can be easily collected and decoded to create control signals for virtual objects (Coogan and He, 2018).…”

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Art as therapy in virtual reality: A scoping review

Hadjipanayi

Banakou²,

Michael-Grigoriou³

2023

Front. Virtual Real.

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This scoping review focuses on therapeutic interventions, which involve the creation of artworks in virtual reality. The purpose of this research is to survey possible directions that traditional practices of art therapy and therapeutic artmaking could take in the age of new media, with emphasis on fully immersive virtual reality. After the collection of papers from online databases, data from the included papers were extracted and analyzed using thematic analysis. The results reveal that virtual reality introduces novel opportunities for artistic expression, self-improvement, and motivation for psychotherapy and neurorehabilitation. Evidence that artmaking in virtual reality could be highly beneficial in therapeutic settings can be found in many aspects of virtual reality, such as its virtuality, ludicity, telepresence capacity, controlled environments, utility of user data, and popularity with digital natives. However, deficiencies in digital literacy, technical limitations of the current virtual reality devices, the lack of tactility in virtual environments, difficulties in the maintenance of the technology, interdisciplinary concerns, as well as aspects of inclusivity should be taken into consideration by therapy practitioners, researchers, and software developers alike. Finally, the reported results reveal implications for future practice.

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confidence: 99%