Wagener, N;
Niess, J;
Rogers, Y;
Schöning, J;
(2022)
Mood Worlds: A Virtual Environment for Autonomous Emotional Expression.
In: Barbosa, S and Lampe, C and Appert, C and Shamma, DA and Drucker, S and Williamson, J and Yatani, K, (eds.)
CHI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): New York, NY, USA.
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Abstract
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 positive 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.
Type: | Proceedings paper |
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Title: | Mood Worlds: A Virtual Environment for Autonomous Emotional Expression |
Event: | 22022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22) |
ISBN-13: | 9781450391573 |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1145/3491102.3501861 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501861 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
Keywords: | Virtual Reality, Well-being, Happiness, Emotions, Emotion Regulation, Positive Technology |
UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10150739 |
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