Congratulations to Dr Jim Ang of the School of Engineering and Digital Arts and also to Dr Mario Weick from the School of Psychology who have been successful in obtaining funding from the Faculty of Social Sciences (£4,946) to carry out research using virtual reality (VR) to elicit human emotions.
Specifically, the project entitled ‘How effective is VR in Eliciting Human Emotions?’ aims to develop a repository of VR stimuli for researchers to elicit different affective experiences (feelings and emotions) in people. Currently, the main source for such stimuli is the International Affective Picture System (IAPS). The team believes that using videos with 360 VR views could be a more effective way to elicit emotions. This cross-Faculty project will develop 360-degree videos designed and validated to elicit affective experiences.