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Stress management training in athletes: Design considerations for VR biofeedback systems

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Arturo Morales Téllez,

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MexIHC '21: Proceedings of the 8th Mexican Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

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Stress is a reaction of the body to external challenges, whether physical or psychological. In sports, there are stressors that affect the athlete’s performance. Lack of mechanisms for stress regulation can be detrimental to athletes’ individual and collective performance. Biofeedback systems have shown promising clinical results in stress regulation of athletes for sport competitions. In this article, we present the design process of VANS, a virtual reality biofeedback system that supports stress management training in athletes. The results of this study provide a set of design considerations for the development of biofeedback systems for athletes.

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Morales Tellez AValdez Gastelum MCastro LTentori M(2023)Evaluating the Effect of the Color-Word Stroop Test and VR as a Psychological StressorAdjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing10.1145/3594739.3610698(93-97)Online publication date: 8-Oct-2023
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DOI:10.1145/3492724

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Morales Tellez AValdez Gastelum MCastro LTentori M(2023)Evaluating the Effect of the Color-Word Stroop Test and VR as a Psychological StressorAdjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing10.1145/3594739.3610698(93-97)Online publication date: 8-Oct-2023
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