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Paperdoi:10.1109/TVCG.2026.3747427

Too Close for Comfort: Continuous Anxiety Decoding from Physiology and Embodied Signals in Social VR

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Authors: J. Park; J.C. Kang; C. Wallraven

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (early access)

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TL;DR

N=108 in five self-paced multi-agent social VR scenes; sync EDA+PPG+RSP+eye-tracking + locomotion/proxemics; continuous retrospective anxiety. BiLSTM excellent within-person; cross-participant drops; prospective prediction dominated by autoregressive prior with modest sensor gain.

  • Subjects: 108

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PPGEDAeye-trackingrsp

Keywords

AffectAnxietySocial VrMultimodalT AffectT PanicIEEE Tvcg

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How Method works: Setup → Method → TargetSetup: Subjects (108); Signals (eda, ppg, rsp, eye-tracking). Method: Method.SetupSubjects: 108Subjects108Signals: eda, ppg, rsp, eye-trackingSignalseda, ppg, rsp, eye-trackingMethodMethod

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Park, J., Kang, J., & Wallraven, C. (2026). Too Close for Comfort: Continuous Anxiety Decoding from Physiology and Embodied Signals in Social VR. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2026.3747427
Park, J., J.C. Kang, and C. Wallraven. 2026. "Too Close for Comfort: Continuous Anxiety Decoding from Physiology and Embodied Signals in Social VR." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2026.3747427.
Park, J., Kang, J. and Wallraven, C. (2026) 'Too Close for Comfort: Continuous Anxiety Decoding from Physiology and Embodied Signals in Social VR', IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2026.3747427.
Park, J., et al. "Too Close for Comfort: Continuous Anxiety Decoding from Physiology and Embodied Signals in Social VR." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2026.3747427.
J. Park, J. Kang, and C. Wallraven, "Too Close for Comfort: Continuous Anxiety Decoding from Physiology and Embodied Signals in Social VR," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2026, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2026.3747427.
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  title         = {{Too Close for Comfort: Continuous Anxiety Decoding from Physiology and Embodied Signals in Social VR}},
  author        = {Park, J. and Kang, J.C. and Wallraven, C.},
  year          = {2026},
  journal       = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  doi           = {10.1109/TVCG.2026.3747427}
}

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