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Mood Worlds: A Virtual Environment for Autonomous Emotional Expression
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2022
Author(s)
Abstract (De)
Immersive interactive technologies such as virtual reality (VR) have the potential to foster well-being. While VR applications have been successfully used to evoke positive emotions through the presetting of light, colour and scenery, the experiential potential of allowing users to independently create a virtual environment (VE) has not yet been sufficiently addressed. To that end, we explore how the autonomous design of a VE can affect emotional engagement and well-being. We present Mood Worlds – a VR application allowing users to visualise their emotions by self-creating a VE. In an exploratory evaluation (N=16), we found that Mood Worlds is an effective tool supporting emotional engagement. Additionally, we found that an autonomous creation process in VR increases pos- itive emotions and well-being. Our work shows that VR can be an effective tool to visualise emotions, thereby increasing positive affect. We discuss opportunities and design requirements for VR as positive technology.
Language
English
Keywords
Virtual Reality
Well-being
Happiness
Emotions
Emotion Regulation
Positive Technology
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
None
Book title
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
Publisher
ACM
Event Title
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Contact Email Address
Johannes.schoening@unisg.ch
Eprints ID
265863