The relationship of visual and aural perspective with decentering in virtual reality
Isak de Villiers Bosman, Mila Bujić, L. Cosio, Oğuz Buruk, Kristine Jørgensen, Juho Hamari
African Conference on Human Computer Interaction November 27, 2023 DOI: 10.1145/3628096.3628741 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Within-subjects experiment Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Intervention | Guided body-scan meditation in virtual reality |
| Key findings | Neither visual nor aural third-person perspective significantly affected decentering during a guided body-scan meditation in virtual reality. The authors report no significant effect of either form of perspective on decentering. |
Abstract
Several areas of application for virtual reality technologies have seen significant growth recently, including mindfulness practice. This paper investigates the relationship between the mindfulness-related construct of decentering, i.e., detaching oneself from automatic thinking and observing one's thoughts and emotions, and body representation within virtual reality. Using a within-subjects approach, we investigated whether a third-person perspective, both in terms of visual and aural representation, affects decentering in virtual reality. This was done using a virtual reality application that presented a guided body-scan meditation in virtual reality and utilised these different forms of perspective. Our results do not show a significant effect of either form of perspective on decentering in virtual reality.
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