Effects of Social Presence and Perception in Virtual Reality on Pain

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

105

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

February 1, 2018

Primary Completion Date

November 8, 2018

Study Completion Date

November 8, 2018

Conditions
Chronic Pain, Widespread
Interventions
OTHER

Near Non-Social

Participants will be stably seated, and observed by a research assistant, as they complete an induced pain threshold task while they experience a virtual environment that reproduces the room in which they are seated.

OTHER

Near Social

Participants will be stably seated, and observed by a research assistant, as they complete an induced pain threshold task while they experience a virtual environment that reproduces the room in which they are seated, and converse with a confederate represented by an avatar.

OTHER

Far Non-Social

Participants will be stably seated, and observed by a research assistant, as they complete an induced pain threshold task while they experience a virtual environment that reproduces a different room.

OTHER

Far Social

Participants will be stably seated, and observed by a research assistant, as they complete an induced pain threshold task while they experience a virtual environment that reproduces another room, and converse with a confederate represented by an avatar.

Trial Locations (1)

14853

Cornell Virtual Embodiment Lab, Ithaca

Sponsors

Lead Sponsor

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

OTHER

lead

Cornell University

OTHER

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