Ready Exerciser One: Effects of Music and VR on Exercise Responses

A within-subjects study of 24 recreationally active adults completing a 12-minute exercise protocol. The dataset, from a paper by Costas I. Karageorghis, compares affective, perceptual, enjoyment, and cardiac responses across music, virtual reality (VR), VR-with-music, and control conditions.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the interaction between condition and time for affective valence and perceived activation based on the described experimental design.
• Comparing state attention and perceived enjoyment across music, VR, and combined conditions as indicated by the main effect findings.
• Investigating dissociative thoughts and exercise enjoyment as dependent variables in VR-mediated exercise contexts.
• Modeling cardiac response data collected during aerobic-type exercise under different audio-visual stimuli.

Strengths

• Data from a fully counterbalanced, within-subjects experimental design with 24 participants.
• Measures multiple dependent variables: affective valence, perceived activation, state attention, perceived enjoyment, and cardiac responses.
• Compares four distinct intervention conditions: control, music, VR, and VR-with-music.

Limitations

• Row count and specific column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Sample is limited to 24 recreationally active adults; findings may not generalize to sedentary or ageing populations as noted in the conclusions.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Costas I. Karageorghis via paperswithcode

Collection Method

Experimental data collected from a convenience sample of volunteers under controlled conditions.