ArticleScientific reports2023
Adding virtual plants leads to higher cognitive performance and psychological well-being in virtual reality.
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- Effectiveness of Virtual Reality-Based Well-Being Interventions for Stress Reduction in Young Adults: Systematic Review.JMIR mental health · 2024Pooled it
- Effects of Digital Nature Interventions on Positive Psychological Outcomes: A Scoping Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Comparing Real and Virtual Nature Exposure on Cognition, Well-Being, and Brain Activity in Adults With and Without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Protocol for a Randomized Experimental Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Restorative benefits of nature-related wooden elements in virtual reality settings for visual (eye-tracking) attention, performance, and experience.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Associations of soundscape naturalness and natural-element complexity with short-term psychophysiological restoration in campus green spaces: a virtual reality study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Biophilic interventions in real and virtual environments reduce stress during cognitively demanding tasks.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The effects of biophilic design on steering performance in virtual reality.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Nature imagery's influence on ERN amplitude: an examination of Attention Restoration Theory using EEG.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Effects of indoor biophilic environments on cognitive function in elderly patients with diabetes: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Effects of virtual exposure to urban greenways on mental health.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
Previous research has shown the positive effects of exposure to real and virtual nature. To investigate how such benefits might generalize to ever-more-prevalent virtual workplaces, we examined the effects of the absence or presence of virtual plants in an office environment in Virtual Reality (VR) on users' cognitive performance and psychological well-being. The results of our user study with 39 participants show that in the presence of virtual plants, participants performed significantly better in both short-term memory and creativity tasks. Furthermore, they reported higher psychological well-being scores, including positive affect and attentive coping, whilst reporting lower feelings of anger and aggression after exposure to virtual plants in VR. The virtual office with plants was also perceived as more restorative and induced a higher sense of presence. Overall, these results highlight how the presence of virtual plants in VR can have positive influences on users, and therefore, constitute important design considerations when developing future working and learning spaces.
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