Joyful Adventures and Frightening Places–Designing Emotion-Inducing Virtual Environments

Virtual environments (VEs) can evoke and support emotions, as experienced when playing emotionally arousing games. We theoretically approach the design of fear and joy evoking VEs based on a literature review of empirical studies on virtual and real environments as well as video games’ reviews and c...

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Main Authors: Sophia C. Steinhaeusser, Sebastian Oberdörfer , Sebastian von Mammen , Marc Erich Latoschik , Birgit Lugrin 
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Virtual Reality
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frvir.2022.919163/full