Effects of Manipulating Physiological Feedback in Immersive Virtual Environments

A. Dey , H. Chen , M. Billinghurst , R. W. Lindeman

CHI PLAY

Games increasingly show players their own physiological signals, but how much does that shape the experience? In a single-user immersive environment, this study manipulated the heart-rate feedback shown to participants. Slightly faster or slower real-time feedback altered participants' emotions more than accurate feedback did — even though the manipulation did not change their actual physiological signals.

@inproceedings{dey2018,
  author    = {A. Dey and H. Chen and M. Billinghurst and R. W. Lindeman},
  title     = {Effects of Manipulating Physiological Feedback in Immersive Virtual Environments},
  booktitle = {CHI PLAY},
  pages     = {101-111},
  doi       = {10.1145/3242671.3242676},
  year      = {2018}
}