Indian Virtual reality affective database with self-report measures and EDA

Abstract

The current work assesses the physiological and psychological responses to the 360° emotional videos selected from Stanford virtual reality (VR) affective database [Li et al., 2017], presented using VR head-mounted display (HMD). Participants were asked to report valence and arousal level after watching each video. The electro-dermal activity (EDA) was recorded while watching the videos. The current pilot study shows no significant difference in skin-conductance response (SCR) between the high and low arousal experience. Similar trends were observed during high and low valence. The self-report pilot data on valence and arousal shows no statistically significant difference between Stanford VR affective responses and the corresponding Indian population psychological responses. Despite positive result of no-significant difference in self-report across cultures, we are limited to generalize the result because of small sample size.