A review of technology-assisted self-help and minimal contact therapies for drug and alcohol abuse and smoking addiction: Is human contact necessary for therapeutic efficacy?

Games for Health: Have Fun with Virtual Reality!

“…Decreased anxiety and physiological arousal have been demonstrated in patients who gained insights into their physical arousal immediately on a computer monitor and who consequently learned to control their bodily functions. In general, there is an estimated savings of $540 -$630 per client when new technology is integrated in therapy (34,35). Furthermore, a variety of research has been conducted on technology-aided interventions such as online-based self-administered interventions, and promising results concerning anxiety and stress reduction have been reported (36).…”

“…Over the past decades, with the spread of new technologies (e.g. Internet, video game consoles, mobile devices) in households across various social classes, psychologists tried to integrate VR to provide low-threshold, efficacious and less time-intensive interventions (34). For example, VR combined with biofeedback (BFB) is a scientifically proven method that includes technological feedback to provide body relaxation.…”

Usability of a psychotherapeutic interactive gaming tool used in Facial Emotion Recognition for people with Schizophrenia (Preprint)

“…Accumulated research now indicates computer and internet-based assessment and therapy tools have the potential to increase the cost-effectiveness of current psychotherapeutic interventions by reducing therapist contact time, increasing client participation in therapeutic activities in non-clinical settings, and streamlining the input and processing of client data from therapeutic activities [26,28,29].…”

A Framework for Analyzing and Measuring Usage and Engagement Data (AMUsED) in Digital Interventions: Viewpoint (Preprint)

“…Digital behavior change interventions (DBCIs) have been shown to support positive outcomes for users across a variety of health issues [1,2] whilst proving cost effective for providers [3,4]. For researchers, trialing a complex DBCI can yield large-scale, detailed datasets.…”