The incorporation of empathic systems in everyday life draws a lot of attention from society. Specifically, the use of wearables to perform stress regulation is a growing field of research. Among techniques explored, the haptic emulation of lowered physiological signals has been suggested to be promising. However, some discrepancies remain in empirical research focusing on such biofeedback (BF) regarding their efficacy, and the mechanisms underlying the effects of these wearables remains unclear. Moreover, the influence of individual traits on the efficiency of BF has been marginally studied, while it has been shown that personality could impact both stress and its regulation. The aim of this study is to investigate the outcome of interactions with these technologies from a psycho-physiological standpoint, but also to explore whether personality may influence its efficiency when other interaction devices are present. Participants had to play a challenging game while a lowered haptic BF of their heart rate was induced on their wrist. Results showed variable efficiency of the wearable among the participants: a subjective relaxation was evident for the participants exhibiting the highest neurotic and extraverted traits score. Our results highlight the plurality of the modes of action of these techniques, depending on the individual and on the level of stress to regulate. This study also suggests that tailoring these regulation methods to individual characteristics, such as personality traits, is important to consider, and proposes perspectives regarding the investigation of stress and regulation systems embedded in wearables.
翻译:将消化系统纳入日常生活引起了社会的极大关注。 具体地说,使用磨损系统进行压力调控是一个日益增长的研究领域。 在所探讨的技术中,对降低生理信号进行顺畅的模拟是很有希望的。然而,在侧重于这些生物退退退(BF)的实验性研究中,关于这些磨损效果的功能效果,以及这些磨损效果所产生影响的机制,仍然存在一些差异。此外,对个体特征对BF效率的影响的研究很少,但已经表明个性既影响压力又影响压力调控。本研究的目的是从心理生理角度调查与这些技术互动的结果,同时也探索在其他互动装置出现时,个性是否会影响其效率。参与者不得不玩一场挑战性的游戏,而其心力压力降低的机率却在他们的手腕上引起。结果显示,参与者的磨损效率各异:对于表现出最高神经和异常分的参与者来说,主观放松是显而易见的。我们的结果突出表明这些技术行动方式的多样性,从心理-生理-生理特征的角度来决定这些特性的调整。