Bio-adaptive Social VR to Evoke Affective Interdependence - DYNECOM

Mikko Salminen; Simo Järvelä; Antti Ruonala; Janne  Timonen; Kristiina Mannermaa; Niklas Ravaja; Giulio Jacucci

doi:10.1145/3172944.3172991

Bio-adaptive Social VR to Evoke Affective Interdependence - DYNECOM

Mikko Salminen, Simo Järvelä, Antti Ruonala, Janne Timonen, Kristiina Mannermaa, Niklas Ravaja, Giulio Jacucci

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Abstract

The effects of bio-adaptation-based visual cues in conveying affective information was studied while conducting social meditation in a virtual reality (VR) environment. In a laboratory study, 22 dyads practiced a short duration, modified version of empathy-evoking compassion meditation. The immersive VR provided electroencephalography (EEG) -based real-time visual feedback, as changing color, on the user’s brain activation; the breathing rate of the users was visualized as a movement cue. In addition, the synchronization of the
feedback signals between the users was also visualized. Initial results suggest that the perceived affective interdependence, a component of social presence, was increased when both of the bio-adaptive visual feedbacks were presented to the users, compared to when there was no visual feedback. Also, the EEG-based visual feedback led to higher affective interdependence than the respiration
based visual feedback. The findings suggest that affective contagion may occur by mediated adaptive cues that are based on physiological signals.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	73-77
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-4945-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3172944.3172991
Publication status	Published - 11 Mar 2018
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces - Tokyo, Japan Duration: 7 Mar 2018 → 11 Mar 2018 Conference number: 23 http://iui.acm.org/2018/index.html

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Conference	International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
Abbreviated title	IUI
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Tokyo
Period	07/03/2018 → 11/03/2018
Internet address	http://iui.acm.org/2018/index.html

Keywords

Neurofeedback
bio-feedback
meditation
empathy
affective contagion
virtual reality

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Salminen, M, Järvelä, S, Ruonala, A, Timonen, J, Mannermaa, K, Ravaja, N & Jacucci, G 2018, Bio-adaptive Social VR to Evoke Affective Interdependence - DYNECOM. in 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces . ACM, New York, pp. 73-77, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces , Tokyo, Japan, 07/03/2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3172944.3172991

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