Low – Cost Devices Used in Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy

Hardware Devices Used in Virtual Reality Technologies

Historically, virtual reality has entered into the public awareness as medial toy with equipment „helmet-glove“, which was preferentially determined for wide public and the price of this system had also to correspond to this fact, so price could not be very high. As follows, the producers of virtual reality systems have aimed at developing and providing of the systems for data collecting and an...

Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for the Treatment of Darkness Phobia

Virtual reality (VR) exposure therapy is a common treatment for phobia and the efficacy of this technique has proved. The darkness phobia is one of the most common disorders among the children. This is the first research about the darkness phobia and using VR to treat the patients. The VR system designed in this article is composed from two parts: Mechatronic devices and graphics unit. As a chi...

Efficacy of virtual reality exposure therapy in reducing anxiety symptoms in Iranian individuals with flying phobia

Objective: Virtual reality exposure has recently emerged as an innovative tool for exposure therapy in the treatment of fear of flying. Fear of flying, a key component of which is anxiety, often remains uncured if no intervention procedures are employed. Not to point to the fact that about 10 to 25 percent of all the individuals experience anxiety and ‌that causes the individual entirely to avo...

Virtual reality exposure therapy for school phobia

School phobia is characterized by fear to diverse events associated to school such as being beaten by a classmate, bullied or criticised in front of the class, having to speak in public, doing exams, getting undressed to practice sports, etc. and can frequently cause young children to a chronic school refusal leading to significant social and academic difficulties. In older children and adolesc...

Human-Computer Interaction and Presence in Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy Human-Computer Interaction and Presence in Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy