Virtual Reality Clinical Research: Promises and Challenges

Garrett, Bernie; Taverner, Tarnia; Gromala, Diane; Tao, Gordon; Cordingley, Elliott; Sun, Crystal

doi:10.2196/10839

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“…Another reason demonstrated in the findings was the direct emotional appeal of finding a rare or unique product. Emotional appeals are designed to bypass a person's rationalisation of the value of a product and claims of scarcity, uniqueness, or the idea that there is a some sort of conspiracy preventing widespread use of a secret product, is common in IHS, such as by using language like ‘Doctors don't want you to know this…’ (Garrett et al, ; Modic & Lea, ; Murdoch et al, ) This aspect was evident in the respondents identification of rarity and secret products promoting their engagement with IHS, and the desire to acquire a bargain (Figures and ).…”

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Public perceptions of Internet‐based health scams, and factors that promote engagement with them

Garrett

Mallia

Anthony

2019

Health Soc Care Community

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The prevalence of health scams in Canada is increasing, facilitated by the rise of the Internet as a mass communication medium. However, little is known about the nature of this phenomena. Building on previous work exploring the nature of Internet health scams (IHS), this project sought to better understand the reasons why people engaged with IHS, and if contemporary psychosocial theory can help explain IHS engagement. A mixed‐methods study, involving a web‐based survey incorporating qualitative questions and the Susceptibility to Persuasion‐II Brief psychometric scale (STP‐II Brief), were administered (N = 194) in British Columbia, Canada, in 2017. Results (n = 156) demonstrated that 40% of participants had ever engaged with IHS, but only 1% reported to have actually lost money to a deceptive product/service. Associations between scam engagement, participant demographics and STP‐II Brief scores were explored, with Sex and Employment Status both found to have a significant effect on odds of IHS engagement. STP‐II Brief scores were positively correlated with a likelihood of engagement with IHS, even when adjusting for demographic characteristics. The types of IHS most frequently engaged with were those related to body image products, and social influence appeared to be a dominant psychosocial factor promoting engagement. Participants reported that claims of products being ‘natural’, the result of scientific breakthroughs, use of pseudoscientific language, use of testimonials, and celebrity or professional endorsement could lead them to engage with a product. These findings can help inform health professionals’ understanding of public health‐seeking behaviours with respect to deceptive marketing.

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Public perceptions of Internet‐based health scams, and factors that promote engagement with them

Garrett

Mallia

Anthony

2019

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“…24,33,39,44,53], for better entertainments [47], or to improve healthcare solutions [e.g. 7,13,26,35,36]. Our study argues for an integration of the theoretical constructs of agency and body ownership to explain immersion, i.e.…”

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Agency and Body Ownership in Immersive Virtual Reality Environments: A Laboratory Study

Freude¹,

Ressing

Müller

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Virtual reality (VR) technologies such as head-mounted displays are gaining increasing attention since the Oculus Rift development kit entered the market in 2016. VR is assumed to offer great potential for different purposes such as entertainment, gaming, education, or healthcare. VR provides an enclosed virtual environment in which users can become immersed, can move and look freely at 360degree in any direction, and they can interact, manipulate, or create virtual objects with their entire body. With regard to these properties and the characteristic of immersion, we examine how immersion can be enhanced by the theoretical constructs of agency and body ownership in a VR space. Therefore, we investigate the perception of agency and the sense of body ownership with 69 participants in a laboratory study with a self-developed VR environment. We found a positive significant effect of agency but no effect of body ownership on immersion.

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“…In detail, the limitations of VR for therapeutic purposes can be technological and conceptual [167]. More concrete limitations pertain to the ethical aspects of the usage of VR for the treatment of serious health conditions.…”

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Reconstructing Personal Stories in Virtual Reality as a Mechanism to Recover the Self

Georgieva

Georgiev

2019

IJERPH

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Advances in virtual reality present opportunities to relive experiences in an immersive medium that can change the way we perceive our life stories, potentially shaping our realities for the better. This paper studies the role of virtual reality as a tool for the creation of stories with the concept of the self as a narrator and the life of the self as a storyline. The basis of the study is the philosophical notion of the self-narrative as an explanatory story of the events in one’s life that constitutes the notion of one’s self. This application is suitable for cases when individuals need to recreate their self, such as during recovery after traumatic events. The analysis of the effects of virtual reality shows that it enables a person to engage in a process of deeper self-observation to understand and explain adverse events and to give meaning to these events to form a new story, which can complement the therapeutic outcomes of exposure treatments. This study proposes concrete examples of immersive scenarios used to reconstruct personal stories. Several possible levels of experience are proposed to suggest that recovery can be achieved through the gradual retelling of the self-narrative, addressing all of the underlying narratives. Considering the ethical challenges that might arise, this paper explores the ways in which immersion in virtual reality can benefit a person’s view toward life as a story and his or her self as its author, comparing this idea with previous research on the application of virtual reality for trauma treatment. The analysis also emphasizes the perception of narrative authorship in virtual reality as an essential method for recovering the self-narrative and improving a patient’s mental health during self-actualization.

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Virtual Reality Clinical Research: Promises and Challenges

Cited by 191 publications

References 85 publications

Public perceptions of Internet‐based health scams, and factors that promote engagement with them

Public perceptions of Internet‐based health scams, and factors that promote engagement with them

Agency and Body Ownership in Immersive Virtual Reality Environments: A Laboratory Study

Reconstructing Personal Stories in Virtual Reality as a Mechanism to Recover the Self

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