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Designing for Comfort in VR Public Speaking: How Avatar Realism and Natural Environments Shape User Experience and Stress Responses. [PDF]
Behav Sci (Basel)Zhang H, Peng R, Wang S, Song H, Li Z.
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Exposure to restorative environments helps restore attentional capacity
Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2005Three experiments were designed to test the hypothesis that exposure to restorative environments facilitates recovery from mental fatigue. To this end, participants were first mentally fatigued by performing a sustained attention test; then they viewed photographs of restorative environments, nonrestorative environments or geometrical patterns; and ...
Rita Berto
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A measure of restorative quality in environments
The Housingory and Society, 1997Restorative environments help renew psychological resources depleted in environments that do not fully support intended functions. The design of restorative environments can be aided and underlying theory elaborated with a means for measuring psychological factors thought to work in restorative experiences.
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Restorative Environments in Later Life
Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 2006This study proposes an analysis of restorative experiences of 192 elderly persons living in Rome. Perceived restorativeness of natural and built environments was examined, considering the influence of the social context of restoration and the activities performed in the environment. Restorativeness emerges as a consequence of complex person-environment
Massimiliano Scopelliti
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From restorative environments to restoration in work
Intelligent Buildings International, 2020This is an illustrative review on studies revealing the restorative, that is, stress-reducing, effects of natural settings. We focus on the effects of viewing or being physically active in the natural setting and the effects of indoor plants and window views on restoration and recovery.
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2012
AbstractRestorative environment research is flourishing. Widespread appreciation of the concept has been spurred by two influential theories and has led to a substantive body of research. This chapter gives an overview of what has happened in this area.
van den Berg, A.E., Joye, Y.
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AbstractRestorative environment research is flourishing. Widespread appreciation of the concept has been spurred by two influential theories and has led to a substantive body of research. This chapter gives an overview of what has happened in this area.
van den Berg, A.E., Joye, Y.
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The monastery as a restorative environment
Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2005Abstract This study of the restorative benefits of a retreat experience at a Benedictine monastery was based on questionnaire responses by 521 visitors. Factor analysis of the reasons for coming yielded a four-factor solution that both supports and extends the Attention Restoration Theory (ART) model on which the study was based.
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Restorative Effects of Exercise in Virtual Environments
Proceedings of the 9th Augmented Human International Conference, 2018Development of virtual reality devices cannot consider effects of exercise experiences by virtual environments. In this paper, we compared exercise experience by 3 environments (Indoor, Virtual urban, Virtual nature), focusing on restorative effects. We conducted the experiment that rode a bicycle while watching 360 degrees video in each environment ...
Taekyu Kim, Sangwon Lee 0009
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Restorative Environments and Health
2016The vast majority of people live in urbanized areas. These offer numerous advantages, such as access to a great variety of entertainment and cultural events, services such as educational and medical centers, and opportunities for mixing with different kinds of people in lively public places.
Silvia Collado +3 more
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Virtual Restorative Environments
International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations, 2012Previous restorative environment (RE) research suggests that exposure of individuals to natural settings can reduce stress, improve feelings of well-being, and help individuals to recover from fatigue following intensive mental activities. This paper focuses on possible future opportunities for exploring Virtual Environments (VE) in the pursuit of ...
James F. Knight +2 more
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