Room 101
Room 101
Room 101 is an immersive virtual environment designed that we developed to study the waxing and waning of threats in an unpredictable environment. Participants encounter a series of threats including startling events (e.g., explosions) as well as more prolonged threats (e.g., spiders, a collapsing floor). Using a head-mounted display, participants wander around the room as these events emerge. Meanwhile we measure their peripheral physiological responses. Afterwards, we play a video recording of the participant's experience while they provide a continuous rating of their subjective arousal.
Publications
Hildebrandt, L. K., McCall, C., Engen, H. G., & Singer, T. (2016). Cognitive flexibility, heart rate variability, and resilience predict fine‐grained regulation of arousal during prolonged threat. Psychophysiology, 53(6), 880-890.
McCall, C., Hildebrandt, L. K., Hartmann, R., Baczkowski, B. M., & Singer, T. (2016). Introducing the Wunderkammer as a tool for emotion research: Unconstrained gaze and movement patterns in three emotionally evocative virtual worlds. Computers in Human Behavior, 59, 93-107.
McCall, C., Hildebrandt, L., Bornemann, B., & Singer, T. (2015). Physiophenomenology in Retrospect: Memory Reliably Reflects Physiological Arousal During a Prior Threatening Experience. Consciousness and Cognition, 38, 60-70.
