Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: The purpose of the present study is to investigate the impact of a non-interactive virtual reality (VR) intervention on pain related measures and on cognitive variables during a cold-pressor experience. Forty-six healthy partici-pants underwent two consecutive cold-pressor trials, one staring to a virtual figure and one without VR, in counterbalanced order. During the VR interven-tion, participants were asked to passively imagine the correspondence be-tween a stereoscopic VR figure and the experienced pain. Results showed no significant differences between the VR and no-VR condition for either pain or cognitive measures. The usefulness of a non-interactive VR intervention versus active VR strategies to cope with pain is discussed.
Institution: Universitat de Barcelona
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Human-Computer Interaction
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: Fundació la Marató de TV3
OpenAlex ID: W2127350425