Evaluation of a New Mobile Virtual Reality Setup to Alter Pain Perception: Pilot Development and Usability Study in Healthy Participants
Samuel E J Knobel, Raphael Oberson, Jonas Räber, Narayan Schütz, Niklaus Egloff, Angela Botros, Stephan M Gerber, Tobias Nef, Lukas Heydrich · 2024
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Samuel Knobel and co-authors test a mobile virtual reality setup that shows users their own heartbeat on a virtual body. Their 2024 pilot builds on the rubber hand effect, where synced touch can make a fake limb feel like one's own. The aim is to shift how pain is felt.
The setup pairs a phone-based headset with a smartwatch that tracks heart rate. The team first checked watch accuracy against a standard chest measure. Then twenty healthy adults took synced and unsynced sessions, each five minutes long. Scores covered ease of use, sickness symptoms, body ownership, and pain response. The report weighs whether the portable kit is sound enough for later pain studies.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Samuel E J Knobel, Raphael Oberson, Jonas Räber, Narayan Schütz, Niklaus Egloff, Angela Botros, Stephan M Gerber, Tobias Nef, Lukas Heydrich |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |