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Evaluation of the Relationship Between Virtual Environments and Emotions

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This study describes the emotional responses to the use of virtual reality (VR) environments. Namely the relation between different environments and axial emotional dimensions: valence, arousal and dominance. To better understand this relation, were also evaluated presence, concentration, relaxation. We evaluated the experience of 146 participants in three virtual environments: Helix® (a roller coaster experience); Yana® (a beach sunset/sunrise experience); Surge® (an abstract environment transformation experience). Helix® proved to be a facilitator of presence and arousal. Surge® results are like the Helix® except that levels of relaxation are lower. Yana® is a facilitator of dominance but levels of arousal and presence was the lowest of the three. The presence was positively related with arousal. Relaxation had a negative relation with arousal and presence. The emotional appraisals were different for each environment. These results are useful in developing virtual environments to model emotional experience.

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    Tiago Oliveira, Paulo Noriega & Francisco Rebelo

  2. CIAUD, Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua Sá Nogueira, Pólo Universitário, Alto da Ajuda, 1349-063, Lisbon, Portugal

    Paulo Noriega & Francisco Rebelo

  3. Pró-reitoria de Pesquisa e Inovação, Universidade Feevale, Rodovia RS-239, 2755, Novo Hamburgo, RS, 93352-000, Brazil

    Regina Heidrich

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Oliveira, T., Noriega, P., Rebelo, F., Heidrich, R. (2018). Evaluation of the Relationship Between Virtual Environments and Emotions. In: Rebelo, F., Soares, M. (eds) Advances in Ergonomics in Design. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 588. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60582-1_8

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