The use of VR tilt brush in art and psychomotor therapy: An innovative perspective

Remote arts therapy in collaborative virtual environment: A pilot case study

“…In contrast, the experiment of arts therapy in VR has just started recently with off-the-shelf VR applications. For example, Haeyen et al (2021) invited five art therapists and two psychomotor therapists to experiment with Tilt Brush 1 in their clinical practice using the Lean Startup Method. The qualitative results showed that the therapists viewed Tilt Brush 1 as an application with much potential in the clinical practice.…”

“…However, the authors also adverted that the offthe-shelf applications they tested did not allow multiple individuals to be in the same virtual space simultaneously, limiting the therapists' viewing and interpretation of the artworks and communications with the clients. To address such limitations might need to either adapt existing psychotherapeutic methodologies significantly, as suggested by Haeyen et al (2021), or transform existing single-user VR applications into multi-user CVEs so that the unique triangular therapeutic relationship between the therapist, the client, and the artworks could be translated and maintained.…”

“…Motivated by the unique experience of creating threedimensional artworks in virtual reality (VR), a few pilot studies have been conducted to investigate the feasibility of using off-theshelf VR applications to enable arts therapy. For example, Haeyen et al (2021) invited five art therapists and two psychomotor therapists to experiment with Tilt Brush1 in their clinical practice. Kaimal et al (2020) conducted a similar study to collect qualitative feedback from participants with more diverse backgrounds outside the clinical setting regarding the use of Tilt Brush 1 and Kodon 2 for art making.…”

Art as therapy in virtual reality: A scoping review

“…Regarding the psychomotor domain, an improvement of psychomotor development in children with speech pathologies was observed after introducing a finger puppet theater approach (including the creation of puppets) in their correctional pedagogy training (Arkhipova and Lazutkina, 2022). It is apparent that psychomotor therapy is well complemented by expressive arts therapy, as they share the element of active participation into activities that promote kinesthetic abilities, cognitive processes, and personal development (Haeyen et al, 2021b;Arkhipova and Lazutkina, 2022). In order to limit the scope of this review on the healing qualities of creating a visual artwork, this review focuses solely on art therapy.…”

“…Especially after the COVID-19 pandemic and the mobility restrictions imposed on therapists and clients alike, therapists were forced to reevaluate their methods and find ways to best utilize technology to mitigate the negative effects of the pandemic on the normality of treatment procedures (Feniger-Schaal et al, 2022). Longdistance VR interventions are deemed as suitable alternatives to faceto-face interventions in the case of treatments that require more "acting" instead of "talking," such as psychomotor therapy, because of the experiential nature of using VR (Haeyen et al, 2021b). This scoping review revisits the technological gap indicated by Orr but purely focusing on VR, with the objective to assess the therapeutic utility of art-related practices in VR and provide guidelines for future research.…”