An Investigation into the State of Mind of Recipients when Listening to a Nature Soundscape in Virtual Reality
Abstract
A study is presented which investigates whether audiovisual nature soundscape recordings in virtual reality can have positive effects on subjective well-being. Twenty people from different occupational and age groups were selected for the study. They were presented with a VR application with a 3D nature soundscape recording. To exclude the placebo effect, the test subjects listened to their favourite music instead of the soundscape recording in a second examination. Subjective well-being was recorded by means of several questionnaires and physical well-being by measuring blood pressure and pulse. The results show that the soundscape recording had a significant positive effect on subjective and physical well-being even compared to the favourite music of the participants.
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| Titel | An Investigation into the State of Mind of Recipients when Listening to a Nature Soundscape in Virtual Reality |
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| Medien | AM '22: Proceedings of the 17th International Audio Mostly Conference |
| ISBN | 9781450397018 |
| Verfasser | Maria Hösslin von, Prof. Dr. Cornelius Pöpel |
| Seiten | 96-99 |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum | 12.09.2022 |
| Zitation | Hösslin von, Maria; Pöpel, Cornelius (2022): An Investigation into the State of Mind of Recipients when Listening to a Nature Soundscape in Virtual Reality. AM '22: Proceedings of the 17th International Audio Mostly Conference, 96-99. DOI: 10.1145/3561212.356124 |