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Investigating the Influence of Sound Design for Inducing Anxiety in Virtual Public Speaking

Author(s) -

Enora Gabory,

Mathieu Chollet

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

companion publication of the 2020 international conference on multimodal interaction

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

DOI - 10.1145/3395035.3425227

Subject(s) - anxiety , sound (geography) , social anxiety , virtual reality , protocol (science) , public speaking , psychology , computer science , applied psychology , human–computer interaction , multimedia , acoustics , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , physics , pathology , psychiatry , alternative medicine

Virtual reality has demonstrated successful outcomes for treating social anxiety disorders, or helping to improve social skills. Some studies showed that various factors can impact the level of participants' anxiety during public speaking. However, the influence of sound design on this anxiety has been less investigated, and it is necessary to study the possible impacts that it can have. In this paper, we propose a model relating sound design concepts to presence and anxiety during virtual reality interactions, and present a protocol of a future experimental study aimed at investigating how sound design and in particular sound distractions can influence anxiety during public speaking simulations in virtual environments.

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