Project · 2021

Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy

A project on engagement and empowerment using playful user-generated treatment in virtual reality exposure therapy.

Overcoming a range of challenges that traditional therapy faces, virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) yields great potential for the treatment of phobias such as acrophobia, the fear of heights. We investigate this potential and present playful user-generated treatment (PUT), a novel game-based approach for VRET.

See the papers listed below for further details and summary videos.

Related publications

Playful User-Generated Treatment: A Novel Game Design Approach for VR Exposure Therapy

D. Alexandrovsky, G. Volkmar, M. Spliethöver, S. Finke … R. Malaka · Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

Playful User-Generated Treatment: Expert Perspectives on Opportunities and Design Challenges

G. Volkmar, D. Alexandrovsky, J. David Smeddinck, M. Herrlich, R. Malaka · Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play