Affect Dynamics through Virtual Reality

Virtual reality can potentially induce a range of affective states and be a powerful tool for exploring affective responses in a controlled and immersive environment. It allows visualizing continuous affective experiences without duptions, enabling the measurement of behavioral and physiological changes during transitions between affective states. The transitions between affective states have been analyzed by the field of study on affect dynamics, but never with dynamic and immersive stimuli like virtual reality. Virtual reality allows studying affective transitions dynamically, exposing the subject to the same environment that changes valence and arousal. We proposed a conceptual design investigating affect dynamics using VR. The experimental design involves creating VR environments with specific transitions that elicit different affective states characterized by arousalvalence configurations. Indeed, we explained the conceptual design used to develop virtual reality environments, illustrating an example that was implemented.