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Effects of Background Sounds on the User’s Psychological Indices in Virtual Environment

Authors
Ibuki Hori1, *, Shinji Miyake1, Daiji Kobayashi2
1Graduate School of Chitose Institute of Science and Technology, Hokkaido, Japan
2Chitose Institute of Science and Technology, Hokkaido, Japan
*Corresponding author. Email: m2230320@photon.chitose.ac.jp
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Ibuki Hori
Available Online 29 February 2024.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-388-7_5How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Virtual environment; Stress; Sound; Working environment
Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the work style, with an increasing number of companies introducing homeworking. However, there are concerns about decreasing communication between workers and their supervisors, which increases stress and fatigue in workers. Efforts are being made to incorporate virtual reality technology into homeworking, enabling work to be conducted in virtual offices while encouraging communication. Studies on the effects of working in virtual environments have reported reduced stress in workers exposed to natural landscapes. However, studies on the effects of natural sounds in virtual environments on workers’ stress levels are limited. In this study, twelve students were exposed to two types of background sound: forest sound and office sound in a virtual office. The effects of these two sounds were investigated using psychological indices. The results revealed that the forest sound reduced work stress even in virtual environments. Applying the knowledge of the results, it is assumed that background forest sounds in silent office environments helps the office workers calm stress.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Workshop on Computation: Theory and Practice (WCTP 2023)
Series
Atlantis Highlights in Computer Sciences
Publication Date
29 February 2024
ISBN
10.2991/978-94-6463-388-7_5
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2589-4900
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-388-7_5How to use a DOI?
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© 2024 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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