NDLI: V-Theme Park authoring for fear diminishing

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Jeongdan Choi Byungtae Jang
Copyright Year	2001
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Virtual Reality, ETRI-CSTL, Taejon, South Korea (Jeongdan Choi)
Abstract	Exposure therapy is a clinical treatment based on gradual and systematic exposure of phobic people to the feared object or situation a little at a time. Through repeated rehearsals, their fear decreases little by little and they become more comfortable with the stimuli. For this purpose, we developed V-Theme Park-an immersive virtual environment, in which the patients themselves construct virtual worlds with the stimuli bothering them in the real world. Our V-Theme Park includes virtual environments of flying, driving, diving and virtual objects of spiders, snakes and so on. This involves exposing the psychologically disordered patients to a virtual environment containing the feared stimulus in place of taking the patients into a real environment or having the patient imagine the stimulus. Due to weak background in this medical field we don't have well-established clinical results yet. The paper describes the considerations and implementation of a treatment system with virtual environments and its authoring tool for fear diminishment and the feasibility tests that were performed on a panic patient with mild symptoms. The user can test the fear by himself through the Internet, because V-Theme Park is saved as a VRML file. We constructed bungee jump, road, and elevator contents and in our study VR exposure therapy was shown to be very effective in reducing the fear of diving, driving, and high elevation.
Starting Page	717
Ending Page	725
File Size	400695
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769514022
DOI	10.1109/VSMM.2001.969735
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2001-10-25
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Virtual environment Medical treatment Psychology Biomedical imaging System testing Performance evaluation Internet Roads Elevators Virtual reality
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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