SpEYEders: Adults’ and Children’s Affective Responses during Immersive Playful Gaze Interactions Transforming Virtual Spiders

Theresa F. Wechsler, Martin Brockelmann, Konstantin Kulik, Felicitas M. Kopf, Martin Kocur, Michael Lankes, Andreas Mühlberger, Christian Wolff

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Abstract

Specific phobias like spider phobia represent a frequent mental health problem in children and adolescents, demanding innovative prevention and treatment approaches. We therefore develop an eye tracking supported Virtual Reality serious game for school-aged children, realizing gaze interactions to promote attention towards, and positive experiences during exposure to spiders. Within pilot studies in adults (n=30) and children (n=14) without fear of spiders, we assessed positive and negative affect during prototype gaze feedback through five different variants: If gazed for few seconds, the virtual spider changed into a shrunk, a rainbow coloured, or dying spider, or morphed into a smileyball, or speaks friendly. We found the highest positive affect for the rainbow and smileyball variant, followed by the shrunk and friendly speaking variant. In contrast, the dying variant was excluded due to the possible induction of negative affect. Findings indicate eligible variants for the further development of the VR serious game.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCHI PLAY 2021 - Extended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
Place of PublicationNew York, NY, USA
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages74–79
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450383561
ISBN (Print)9781450383561
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameCHI PLAY 2021 - Extended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

Keywords

  • eye tracking
  • gaze interaction
  • serious game
  • spider phobia
  • virtual reality
  • Spider phobia
  • Virtual reality
  • Serious game
  • Eye tracking
  • Gaze interaction

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