Low – Cost Devices Used in Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy

Buń, Paweł; Górski, Filip; Grajewski, Damian; Wichniarek, Radosław; Zawadzki, Przemysław

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2017.01.158

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“…It may be believed by the managers of hotels, tour operators, and travel agents that they are touch tools, e.g. using projectors/monitors because its most significant tools are: (Bun et al, 2017). The table shows the tourists who used this technology represented a percentage (22.5%), while those who did not use it represented a percentage (77.5 %).Turkey and Lebanon were the leading countries in the field as they were visited according to virtual reality technique.…”

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Toward Applying Virtual Reality Technique as a Promotional Tool in Tourism and Hospitality Services in Egypt

Mohamed¹,

Naby²

2017

International Journal of Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality

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The current study aimed at activating the Virtual reality technique at tourism and hospitality industry in Egypt. Virtual reality application is one of the recent trends at tourism field in many countries. For example, the United Arab Emirates in November 2016 used virtual reality technique in marketing the tourism and hospitality services across the world. Also, the current study aimed at adopting the technique of virtual reality and its role in the activating international tourism movement. The study used the analytical perspective method. The questionnaire was used as the study tool to be applied on the study sample which consisted of the managers of tourism and hospitality services marketing at the hotels sectors, travels agents in Luxor and a random sample of tourists in Luxor. The study showed the absence of complete understanding and awareness, of virtual reality concept and its application at tourism and hospitality industry for managers of hotels and touristic companies, besides to the confusion between the concepts of virtual reality and e-marketing. Additionally, there is no a weakness and shortage of the provision and availability of virtual reality environment component and its tools in case of touristic collapse and the limited use of virtual reality due to its high cost. The study set a number of recommendations, most important of which is activating the cooperation at the field of hospitality and tourism represented by the Ministry of Tourism besides other ministries and authorities, e.g. Ministries of Communication, environment, and investment.

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Toward Applying Virtual Reality Technique as a Promotional Tool in Tourism and Hospitality Services in Egypt

Mohamed¹,

Naby²

2017

International Journal of Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality

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“…Over the past years, Virtual Reality (VR) technology has developed significantly. With VR products being more accessible, from a financial point of view [15,16] it became possible for more specific VR applications to be created. So, research has been done in order to determine whether Virtual Reality can improve Standard ET [16].…”

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Comparison between Full Body Motion Recognition Camera Interaction and Hand Controllers Interaction used in Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Acrophobia

Kritikos

Zoitaki

Tzannetos

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Virtual Reality has already been proven as a useful supplementary treatment tool for anxiety disorders. However, no specific technological importance has been given so far on how to apply Virtual Reality with a way that properly stimulates the phobic stimulus and provide the necessary means for lifelike experience. Thanks to technological advancements, there is now a variety of hardware that can help enhance stronger emotions generated by Virtual Reality systems. This study aims to evaluate the feeling of presence during different hardware setups of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy, and, particularly how the user’s interaction with those setups can affects their sense of presence during the virtual simulation. An acrophobic virtual scenario is used as a case study by 20 phobic individuals and the Witmer–Singer presence questionnaire was used for presence evaluation by the users of the system. Statistical analysis on their answers revealed that the proposed full body Motion Recognition Cameras system generates a better feeling of presence compared to the Hand Controllers system. This is thanks to the Motion Recognition Cameras, which track and allow display of the user’s entire body within the virtual environment. Thus, the users are enabled to interact and confront the anxiety-provoking stimulus as in real world. Further studies are recommended, in which the proposed system could be used in Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy trials with acrophobic patients and other anxiety disorders as well, since the proposed system can provide natural interaction in various simulated environments.

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“…Public speaking anxiety has been successfully treated using various VRET implementations [6][7][8], but these implementations do Sight impairments can be a major factor in the usefulness of VRET. Bun et al separated their experiments' participants into four groups-with and without the fear of heights and with and without sight impairments [23]. The authors observed that higher anxiety levels were induced by the VR stimuli for the group without sight impairment.…”

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Cloud Based Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy Service for Public Speaking Anxiety

2019

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Public speaking anxiety is commonly treated using cognitive behavioral therapy. During the therapy session, the patient is either asked to vividly imagine and describe the feared stimulus or is confronted with it in the real world. Sometimes, however, it can be hard to imagine the object of fear or to create a controllable environment that contains this stimulus. Virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) can help solve these problems by placing the patient in a simulated 3D environment. While standalone VRET applications have been investigated for more than 25 years, we are analyzing the viability of a cloud-based VRET system. In this paper, we discuss the architectural and technical choices made in order to create a mobile and lightweight solution that can be easily adapted by any psychology clinic. Moreover, we are analyzing data gathered from 30 participants who have undergone a VRET session for public speaking anxiety. Finally, the collected psychophysiological signals including galvanic skin response (GSR) and skin temperature are processed and investigated in order to evaluate our cloud-based VRET system.

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Low – Cost Devices Used in Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy

Cited by 37 publications

References 11 publications

Toward Applying Virtual Reality Technique as a Promotional Tool in Tourism and Hospitality Services in Egypt

Toward Applying Virtual Reality Technique as a Promotional Tool in Tourism and Hospitality Services in Egypt

Comparison between Full Body Motion Recognition Camera Interaction and Hand Controllers Interaction used in Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Acrophobia

Cloud Based Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy Service for Public Speaking Anxiety

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