Effects of sharing physiological states of players in a collaborative virtual reality gameplay
Proc. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Remote players often cannot sense each other's emotional state. This paper built two collaborative VR games — one joyous, one scary — that display one player's real-time heart rate to the other, and compared them against versions without that feedback. The games produced significant effects on players' overall emotional experience, giving early evidence that sharing physiological state shapes collaborative play.
This CHI paper investigates how sharing players’ physiological states (such as heart rate) during collaborative VR gameplay affects their experience, connection, and behaviour — a foundational study in empathic computing.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{dey2017,
author = {A. Dey and T. Piumsomboon and Y. Lee and M. Billinghurst},
title = {Effects of sharing physiological states of players in a collaborative virtual reality gameplay},
booktitle = {Proc. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.1145/3025453.3026028}
}