Biometric and Survey Responses to Urban Biodiversity in Virtual Reality

A controlled experiment by Daniel Phillips integrates wearable biometric sensors with immersive virtual reality to assess public perception of urban biodiversity. The dataset contains physiological arousal data (heart rate and galvanic skin response) and aggregate survey responses for three urban spatial typologies under four sequential biodiversity treatments. The data was published on figshare in April 2026 under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing physiological arousal patterns in response to varying biodiversity levels based on heart rate and galvanic skin response data.
• Comparing reflective survey perceptions (biodiversity, naturalness, liking) with temporally resolved biometric data.
• Investigating experiential inflection points within different urban spatial typologies (residential, institutional, urban core).
• Developing methodological frameworks for using VR and biometric sensing as complementary tools in spatial design research.

Strengths

• Data integrates two measurement modalities: continuous biometric sensing and post-experience survey responses.
• Experimental design includes three controlled urban spatial typologies and four sequential biodiversity treatments.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is 19.1 KB, indicating a very limited scope, likely containing summary or illustrative data rather than raw participant records.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and structure require manual inspection of the DOCX file.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Daniel Phillips.

Collection Method

Data was gathered from a controlled virtual reality experiment integrating wearable biometric sensors.

Time Range

The experiment date is unspecified; dataset was published in April 2026.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-14 13:32:49; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Spatial coverage is not specified; the study focuses on generic urban spatial typologies.