Feeling-the-Beat: Enhancing Empathy and Engagement During Public Speaking Through Heart Rate Sharing
2024 · Participant study
Recorded summary
In a 36-person experiment comparing real, fabricated and absent heart-rate sharing, audience members reported greater empathy towards the speaker with the system. This is a context-specific self-report.
Recorded limitations
The system shared heart rate between speakers and audience members. The comparison used fabricated or absent signals.
Evidence and provenance
Chapter Trust Factor uses a minimum of three distinct qualifying studies. Publication records retain their own evidence and assessment.
Study design and assessment
- design
- Participant study
- assessment
- category
- unverified-publication-status
- peer Reviewed
- false
- basis
- No qualifying paper-level evidence for a cross was verified under the library criteria.
- sources
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/feeling-the-beat-enhancing-empathy-and-engagement-during-public-speaking-through-heart-rate-sharing/
- trust Factor
- score
- Not recorded
- scope
- Paper
- status
- unassessed
- randomized Controlled Trial
- Not recorded
- blinding
- not-confirmed
- peer Reviewed
- false
- basis
- No qualifying paper-level evidence for a cross was verified under the library criteria.
- sources
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/feeling-the-beat-enhancing-empathy-and-engagement-during-public-speaking-through-heart-rate-sharing/
- review Scope
- Existing publication-specific assessments and bibliographic indexing; no blanket full-text appraisal.
- assessed At
- 2026-11-05
- display Crosses
- 0
- jadad
- status
- unassessed
- score
- Not recorded
- evidence
- evidence Type
- Participant study
- measurement
- Heart rate / heartbeat
- relationship Note
- The system shared heart rate between speakers and audience members. The comparison used fabricated or absent signals.
Topics and recorded topic scores
- key
- language:mindfulness-biofeedback
- title
- Mindfulness Biofeedback / AR / VR / Mixed Reality
- collection
- language
- trust Score
- 2
Citation snapshot and identifiers
- id
- lab-f825944bbd00ce
- doi
- Not recorded
- pmid
- Not recorded
- citation Snapshot
- Not recorded
- citations By Collection
- language
- Not recorded
Complete approved library record
- id
- lab-f825944bbd00ce
- aliases
- None recorded
- title
- Feeling-the-Beat: Enhancing Empathy and Engagement During Public Speaking Through Heart Rate Sharing
- journal
- neurotransmitters
- None recorded
- year
- 2024
- authors
- design
- Participant study
- identity Conflict
- Not recorded
- doi
- Not recorded
- pmid
- Not recorded
- urls
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/feeling-the-beat-enhancing-empathy-and-engagement-during-public-speaking-through-heart-rate-sharing/
- collections
language
- categories
Mindfulness and biofeedback
- targets
- None recorded
- priority
- 1
- quotes
- None recorded
- summary
- In a 36-person experiment comparing real, fabricated and absent heart-rate sharing, audience members reported greater empathy towards the speaker with the system. This is a context-specific self-report.
- limitation
- The system shared heart rate between speakers and audience members. The comparison used fabricated or absent signals.
- citation Count
- Not recorded
- study Design Assessment
- category
- unverified-publication-status
- peer Reviewed
- false
- basis
- No qualifying paper-level evidence for a cross was verified under the library criteria.
- sources
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/feeling-the-beat-enhancing-empathy-and-engagement-during-public-speaking-through-heart-rate-sharing/
- paper Trust Assessment
- score
- Not recorded
- scope
- Paper
- status
- unassessed
- randomized Controlled Trial
- Not recorded
- blinding
- not-confirmed
- peer Reviewed
- false
- basis
- No qualifying paper-level evidence for a cross was verified under the library criteria.
- sources
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/feeling-the-beat-enhancing-empathy-and-engagement-during-public-speaking-through-heart-rate-sharing/
- review Scope
- Existing publication-specific assessments and bibliographic indexing; no blanket full-text appraisal.
- assessed At
- 2026-11-05
- display Crosses
- 0
- citations By Collection
- language
- Not recorded
- topics
- key
- language:mindfulness-biofeedback
- title
- Mindfulness Biofeedback / AR / VR / Mixed Reality
- collection
- language
- trust Score
- 2
- journal Key
- journal Label
- chapter Entries
- title
- Feeling-the-Beat: Enhancing Empathy and Engagement During Public Speaking Through Heart Rate Sharing
- doi
- Not recorded
- pmid
- Not recorded
- journal
- year
- 2024
- authors
- design
- Participant study
- urls
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/feeling-the-beat-enhancing-empathy-and-engagement-during-public-speaking-through-heart-rate-sharing/
- targets
- None recorded
- categories
Mindfulness and biofeedback
- citation Count
- Not recorded
- evidence
- evidence Type
- Participant study
- measurement
- Heart rate / heartbeat
- relationship Note
- The system shared heart rate between speakers and audience members. The comparison used fabricated or absent signals.
- id
- language-biofeedback-a25
- record Id
- lab-f825944bbd00ce
- summary
- In a 36-person experiment comparing real, fabricated and absent heart-rate sharing, audience members reported greater empathy towards the speaker with the system. This is a context-specific self-report.
- limitation
- The system shared heart rate between speakers and audience members. The comparison used fabricated or absent signals.
- quotes
- None recorded
- source Pages
- None recorded
- study Design Assessment
- category
- unverified-publication-status
- peer Reviewed
- false
- basis
- No qualifying paper-level evidence for a cross was verified under the library criteria.
- sources
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/feeling-the-beat-enhancing-empathy-and-engagement-during-public-speaking-through-heart-rate-sharing/
- paper Trust Assessment
- score
- Not recorded
- scope
- Paper
- status
- unassessed
- randomized Controlled Trial
- Not recorded
- blinding
- not-confirmed
- peer Reviewed
- false
- basis
- No qualifying paper-level evidence for a cross was verified under the library criteria.
- sources
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/feeling-the-beat-enhancing-empathy-and-engagement-during-public-speaking-through-heart-rate-sharing/
- review Scope
- Existing publication-specific assessments and bibliographic indexing; no blanket full-text appraisal.
- assessed At
- 2026-11-05
- display Crosses
- 0
- collection
- language
- chapter Number
- 2
- topic Id
- mindfulness-biofeedback
- topic Title
- Mindfulness Biofeedback / AR / VR / Mixed Reality
- trust Score
- 2
- evidence
- evidence Type
- Participant study
- measurement
- Heart rate / heartbeat
- relationship Note
- The system shared heart rate between speakers and audience members. The comparison used fabricated or absent signals.
- jadad
- status
- unassessed
- score
- Not recorded
- condition Evidence
- None recorded
- conditions
- None recorded
- topic Trust Scores
2
- full Text
- status
- not-indexed
- retrieval Available
- false