A virtual reality version of the Trier Social Stress Test: A pilot study

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 325-336

  Wallergård, Mattias ^a   Jönsson, Peter ^a   Österberg, Kai ^a   Johansson, Gerd ^a   Karlson, Björn ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC TASKS; CLINICAL POPULATION; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; HEAD TRACKING; HEART RATES; IMMERSIVE VR; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA; PILOT STUDIES; PRACTICAL PROBLEMS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; STRESS RESPONSE; STRESS TEST; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 80555136823     PISSN: 10547460     EISSN: 15313263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/PRES_a_00052     Document Type: Article

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