Green landscapes in colleges and universities have important effects on
the physiological and psychological indicators of college students. Based on
virtual reality technology and environmental emotion perception measurement
technology, the article constructs three biodiversity virtual reality landscape
green areas and measures the changes of physiological indexes (brain waves) and
psychological indexes (anxiety level) during 68 subjects’ experience of virtual
reality scenes to investigate the effects of different biodiversity green areas
landscape on human physiological and psychological indexes. The results showed
that: The biodiversity of the green space landscape had significant effects on
physiological and psychological recovery, in which the high biodiversity
environment had better recovery effects than the low biodiversity; however,
students were more focused in the low biodiversity environment; the effects of
the virtual green space landscape on physiological and psychological were
consistent with the real environment.
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