Journal article
Preparing the Heart for Duty: Virtual Reality Biofeedback in an Arousing Action Game Improves in-action Voluntary Heart Rate Variability Control in Experienced Police
Abstract
Adequate control over evolutionary engrained bodily stress reactions is essential to avoid disproportionate responses during highly arousing situations in police. This regulation can be trained via heart rate variability (HRV)-biofeedback, a widely used intervention aiming to improve stress regulation, but typically conducted under passive, low arousing conditions. We integrated closed-loop HRV-biofeedback in a newly designed engaging Virtual …
Authors
Michela A; van Peer JM; Oostenveld R; Dorrestijn W; Smit AS; Granic I; Roelofs K; Klumpers F
Journal
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Vol. PP, No. 99, pp. 1–12
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI
10.1109/taffc.2025.3619161
ISSN
1949-3045