Reducing University Students’ Exam Anxiety via Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in VR with Real-Time EEG Neurofeedback

Pan, Ziqi; Cristea, Alexandra I.; Li, Frederick W. B.

Abstract

This research aims to develop and evaluate a novel approach to reduce university students’ exam anxiety and teach them how to better manage it using a personalised, emotion-informed Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) method, delivered within a controlled and immersive Virtual Reality (VR) environment. By integrating real-time Electroencephalography (EEG) data for anxiety recognition through a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), the approach will attempt to dynamically adapt interventions, based on individual anxiety levels.

Citation

Pan, Z., Cristea, A. I., & Li, F. W. B. (2024, July). Reducing University Students’ Exam Anxiety via Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in VR with Real-Time EEG Neurofeedback. Presented at AIED 2024: Artificial Intelligence in Education, Recife, Brazil

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: AIED 2024: Artificial Intelligence in Education
• Start Date: Jul 8, 2024
• End Date: Jul 12, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Jul 2, 2024
• Publication Date: Jul 2, 2024
• Deposit Date: Nov 13, 2024
• Publisher: Springer Nature
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 418-423
• Series Title: Communications in Computer and Information Science
• Series ISSN: 1865-0929
• Book Title: Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners, Doctoral Consortium and Blue Sky
• ISBN: 9783031643118
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64312-5_52
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3093224