The effects of biophilic design on steering performance in virtual reality.

ABSTRACT: Biophilic design aims to connect people to nature by incorporating natural elements such as plants in built environments. In immersive virtual reality (VR) environments, experiments have shown that, for instance, the presence of virtual plants in VR leads to higher cognitive performance and psychological well-being. However, it has not been investigated so far whether such effects extend to the performance of spatial interaction tasks such as path steering. In this paper, we explore the effects of the presence of virtual plants in an immersive virtual office environment on path steering performance in VR. For this purpose, we combined and replicated two previous studies in this field. The results of our study did not find an effect of the presence of virtual plants on steering time, as our

SUBMITTER: Mostajeran F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12432245 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature