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VR Embodiment for Stress Evaluation in a Return to Work Simulation

NCT05379764 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2022-05-18

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Summary

Comparing the emotional effect of two different versions of one VR experience. The VR experience will simulate a typical return to work situation after an absence due to burnout.

The difference of the VR scenario is the point of view. In the first version, the 'standard' version, the user is looking at the VR experience from a neutral point of view, as if s/he was watching a 2D screen. In the second version, the 'embodiment' version, a VR features is added to have the user feeling incarnated in a digital human. This will enhance the feeling of being present in the virtual world and will enhance the emotional answer. The measured endpoint will be the evoked emotions, in particular stress.

Conditions

  • Virtual Reality
  • Stress
  • Burnout

Interventions

OTHER

Embodiment

Embodiment of a real human in a virtual human (avatar) means that the real human feels incarnated in the avatar. This happens when the real human sees the VRscenario from first person perspective, that the real human can make the avatar move (=agency over the avatar), multi-sensorial integration (=there is a link between the brain of the real human and the avatar. Example, when the avatar sits on a chair, the real human will too and he feels that he is sitting on a chair. Or when the avatar is moving the real human is doing the same movement (and of course the brain of the real human is aware of this movement)) and co-location (= avatar and real human have the sane posture).

OTHER

Observation

The person is looking at the VR scenario as if s/he was looking at a TV

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel

    collaborator OTHER

  • Clinique Saint-Jean, Bruxelles

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-06-30
Primary Completion
2022-08-31
Completion
2022-11-30

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