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Breathing Biofeedback for Police Officers in a Stressful Virtual Environment: Challenges and Opportunities
As part of the Dutch national science program “Professional Games for Professional Skills” we developed a stress-exposure biofeedback training in virtual reality (VR) for the Dutch police. We aim to reduce the acute negative impact of stress on performance, as well as long-term consequences for ment...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7994769/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33776830 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.586553 |
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author | Brammer, Jan C. van Peer, Jacobien M. Michela, Abele van Rooij, Marieke M. J. W. Oostenveld, Robert Klumpers, Floris Dorrestijn, Wendy Granic, Isabela Roelofs, Karin |
author_facet | Brammer, Jan C. van Peer, Jacobien M. Michela, Abele van Rooij, Marieke M. J. W. Oostenveld, Robert Klumpers, Floris Dorrestijn, Wendy Granic, Isabela Roelofs, Karin |
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description | As part of the Dutch national science program “Professional Games for Professional Skills” we developed a stress-exposure biofeedback training in virtual reality (VR) for the Dutch police. We aim to reduce the acute negative impact of stress on performance, as well as long-term consequences for mental health by facilitating physiological stress regulation during a demanding decision task. Conventional biofeedback applications mainly train physiological regulation at rest. This might limit the transfer of the regulation skills to stressful situations. In contrast, we provide the user with the opportunity to practice breathing regulation while they carry out a complex task in VR. This setting poses challenges from a technical – (real-time processing of noisy biosignals) as well as from a user-experience perspective (multi-tasking). We illustrate how we approach these challenges in our training and hope to contribute a useful reference for researchers and developers in academia or industry who are interested in using biosignals to control elements in a dynamic virtual environment. |
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spelling | pubmed-79947692021-03-27 Breathing Biofeedback for Police Officers in a Stressful Virtual Environment: Challenges and Opportunities Brammer, Jan C. van Peer, Jacobien M. Michela, Abele van Rooij, Marieke M. J. W. Oostenveld, Robert Klumpers, Floris Dorrestijn, Wendy Granic, Isabela Roelofs, Karin Front Psychol Psychology As part of the Dutch national science program “Professional Games for Professional Skills” we developed a stress-exposure biofeedback training in virtual reality (VR) for the Dutch police. We aim to reduce the acute negative impact of stress on performance, as well as long-term consequences for mental health by facilitating physiological stress regulation during a demanding decision task. Conventional biofeedback applications mainly train physiological regulation at rest. This might limit the transfer of the regulation skills to stressful situations. In contrast, we provide the user with the opportunity to practice breathing regulation while they carry out a complex task in VR. This setting poses challenges from a technical – (real-time processing of noisy biosignals) as well as from a user-experience perspective (multi-tasking). We illustrate how we approach these challenges in our training and hope to contribute a useful reference for researchers and developers in academia or industry who are interested in using biosignals to control elements in a dynamic virtual environment. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7994769/ /pubmed/33776830 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.586553 Text en Copyright © 2021 Brammer, van Peer, Michela, van Rooij, Oostenveld, Klumpers, Dorrestijn, Granic and Roelofs. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Brammer, Jan C. van Peer, Jacobien M. Michela, Abele van Rooij, Marieke M. J. W. Oostenveld, Robert Klumpers, Floris Dorrestijn, Wendy Granic, Isabela Roelofs, Karin Breathing Biofeedback for Police Officers in a Stressful Virtual Environment: Challenges and Opportunities |
title | Breathing Biofeedback for Police Officers in a Stressful Virtual Environment: Challenges and Opportunities |
title_full | Breathing Biofeedback for Police Officers in a Stressful Virtual Environment: Challenges and Opportunities |
title_fullStr | Breathing Biofeedback for Police Officers in a Stressful Virtual Environment: Challenges and Opportunities |
title_full_unstemmed | Breathing Biofeedback for Police Officers in a Stressful Virtual Environment: Challenges and Opportunities |
title_short | Breathing Biofeedback for Police Officers in a Stressful Virtual Environment: Challenges and Opportunities |
title_sort | breathing biofeedback for police officers in a stressful virtual environment: challenges and opportunities |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7994769/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33776830 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.586553 |
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