Variations in physiological responses of participants during different stages of an immersive virtual environment experiment

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 376-382

  Brogni, Andrea ^a   Vinayagamoorthy, Vinoba ^a   Steed, Anthony ^a   Slater, Mel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Human response; Immersive virtual environments; Physiology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; STRESS ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HUMAN RESPONSE; STRESS RESPONSE; TRAINING PHASE; URBAN EXPERIENCE;

PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 34547435809     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1180495.1180572     Document Type: Conference Paper

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