After conducting and analysing the first experiment some points of improvement emerged. The differences in heart-rate between the sets weren’t significant so we want to create more extremes in heart-rate. One group will get a heart-rate enhancing trigger and there will be a control group that won’t. There was evidence of interaction with age for […]
Category Archives: Virtual View
Virtual View: results experiment one
In this post I want to give an overview of the results of the first and I will spare you the heavy statistic speak. So don’t expect a scientific article. The data is there and I may write a proper article one day but it isn’t appropriate for this blog. Together with Hein from the […]
Virtual View: conducting the first experiment
Now that the research goal is clear, the stimuli are collected and the methods are clear and integrated in the EventIDE experiment it was time to look for participants. We needed at least 30 participants equally divided between men and women. Avans Hogeschool has thousands of students and staff so we didn’t expect that to […]
Virtual View: research methods
How does one research the influence of landscape and sound on a human? Fortunately a lot of research has gone into finding out how people react to visual landscape stimuli. Most articles I’ve read made use of static pictures, some used video. As pictures can be found in abundance on the web and are easily […]
Virtual View: building an experiment
I was very lucky to meet Ilia from Okazolab. When I told him about Virtual View and the research I was planning to do he offered me a licence to work with EventIDE. This is a state of the art stimulus creation software package for building (psychological) experiments with all kinds of stimuli. Ilia has […]
Virtual View: designing the first experiment
I had an idea what I wanted to research in my first experiment after reading the different articles. Looking at the end users, frequent visitors to hospitals and the chronically ill, I want the final piece to be first and foremost a pleasant and relaxing experience. It would be nice if there was an actual […]
Virtual View: Literature research
To get a better idea of which type of landscapes and sound have the biggest effect on (experienced) relaxation explorative research is necessary. At the end of January I started the research trajectory for the project. This is a collaboration with students from the minor “Active ageing” from the Avans Hogeschool. The three students are: […]
Virtual View: about
Virtual View is a biofeedback, multi media installation that responds to the heart rate of the user. The heart rate is sensed and analysed by the Heartlive module. A heart coherence training tool developed by the Dutch company Heartlive. The user views animated landscapes and hears nature inspired sounds both generated by the computer. The […]