Study on the Effect of Virtual Landscape on Stress Relief of College Students

Abstract

Psychological health problems of university students have been increasingly serious in recent years, which has gradually become a major focus of healing landscape design. But virtual landscapes emerge as urbanization intensifies and the limited land area makes nature increasingly far away from people in the city. 20 high-pressure university students were selected to test their stress relief in virtual landscape environment by using VR equipment and portable heart rate detection equipment under the guidance of attention-recovery theory. Results show: (1) most of the participants in the virtual landscape show a more relaxed and natural mood and a certain degree of stress relief; (2) they indicate that vision is the most important of the five sensory experiences in the virtual landscape experience; (3) among the virtual landscapes, the choice of time period also affects the release of emotional pressure and is optimal in the early morning and evening.