Breathing Biofeedback for Police Officers in a Stressful Virtual Environment: Challenges and Opportunities

Frontiers in Psychology

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Jan C. Brammer¹  Jacobien M. van Peer¹  Abele Michela¹  Marieke M. J. W. van Rooij¹  Robert Oostenveld²  Floris Klumpers¹  Wendy Dorrestijn⁴  Isabela Granic¹  Karin Roelofs¹ 

[1] Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University;Donders Institute for Brain, Radboud University;Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet;Police Academy of the Netherlands;Faculty of Law, Radboud University

关键词: biofeedback;    virtual reality;    stress exposure;    user experience;    physiological computing;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.586553

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

CC BY