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In this paper we present a Virtual Reality (VR) system that allows a user to sing together with the Danish National Children choir. The system was co-designed together with psychologists, in order to be adopted to prevent and cope with social anxiety. We present the different elements of the system, as well as a preliminary evaluation which shows the potential of the system as a tool to help coping with social anxiety.
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The material from the day can be found here: https://skolernessangdag.dk/.
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We would like to thank Susanne Wendt and Clara Smedegaard, conductors at Danish National children choir, and the children for preparing a dedicated rehearsal session and allowing us to record their rehearsal. We would also like to thank the psychologists from Cool Kids who provided us with design suggestions as well as dedicated time to test our prototype.
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Serafin, S., Adjorlu, A., Andersen, L., Andersen, N. (2021). Singing in Virtual Reality with the Danish National Children’s Choir. In: Kronland-Martinet, R., Ystad, S., Aramaki, M. (eds) Perception, Representations, Image, Sound, Music. CMMR 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12631. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70210-6_36
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