Cognitive Load as a Hidden Cost of Empathy: Trade-offs in Using VR for Inclusive Design

The experiment consisted of 90 participants who were evenly distributed among three experimental conditions: passive video group, non emotional virtual reality group, and emotional virtual reality group. The dataset includes demographic information of the subjects, past virtual reality usage experience, the results of an empathy scale consisting of 8 items before and after intervention, and the design concept encoded using a multi label coding scheme; The encoding dimensions include auditory, tactile, visual, psychological, and other types of solutions.