Interactive gaming reduces experimental pain with or without a head mounted display

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2123-2128

  Gordon, Nakia S ^a   Merchant, Junaid ^a,b   Zanbaka, Catherine ^a,c   Hodges, Larry F ^a,d   Goolkasian, Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^d CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Electrical stimulation; Emotion; Gaming; Head mounted display; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; EMOTION; GAMING; HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS;

EXPERIMENTS; HEALTH; SENSORY PERCEPTION; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS;

EID: 80052801112     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2011.06.006     Document Type: Article

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