Description
Daniel’s PhD project aims to explore to which extent Augmented Reality (AR) experiences can evoke measurable physiological, psychological, and neurological responses in the user's body. During the first year of his PhD studies, Daniel and his colleagues have developed an AR experience that enables users to see and hear their own hands burning while looking through a Video See-Through Head-Mounted Display (VST-HMD). In a pilot study, half of the participants reported a heat-sensation on the affected left hand. All participants experienced a significant increase in skin conductance during the experiment. Moreover, participants who experienced involuntary heat sensations had a higher skin conductance response. Our research continues on this with several planned follow-up experiments, to explore more deeply how AR experience can have measurable effects on the user's body and mental state. This allows deeper insights into the perceptual and cognitive effects unique to AR experiences. Insights from our experiment may be of significance in a neuroscientific or medical context.| Period | 2 Feb 2021 |
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| Event title | 8th SCM/ACIM Research Colloquium |
| Event type | Seminar |
| Degree of Recognition | Local |