Problems and Solutions in the Methodology of Researching the Psychophysiological Effects of Virtual Reality

The article considers a comprehensive approach to the assessment of psychophysiological effects arising from the perception of virtual reality, based on the well—known principle S → R ("stimulus - response"). The methods used make it possible to evaluate sensorimotor (associated with the development of the "immersion effect"), psychoemotional, cognitive and physiological (related to motor activity and sleep) effects of virtual reality based on both subjective and objective indicators. The above set of techniques was used in experiments simulating the impact of adverse factors of space flight during the testing of special virtual reality technologies used for psychological relaxation (psychological correction). The authors believe that the methodological approach described in the article to the assessment of the psychophysiological effects of virtual reality will be useful in the study of virtual environments used in education and psychology, in the development of simulators of various directions and in other areas of VR application.

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