Summary
In a VR piano-concert recreation, being told that abstract visuals show audience physiology raised engagement and co-presence, and fake data produced the highest pleasure and arousal.
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.bib file@inproceedings{meng2025placebo,
author = "Meng, Xiaru and Ju, Yulan and Kim, Christopher Changmok and He, Yan and Barbareschi, Giulia and Minamizawa, Kouta and Kunze, Kai and Hoppe, Matthias",
title = "A Placebo Concert: The Placebo Effect for Visualization of Physiological Audience Data during Experience Recreation in Virtual Reality",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
pages = "1--16",
year = "2025",
doi = "10.1145/3706598.3713594"
}