Augmented Reality Exposure Therapy with Tactile Feedback for Small Animal Phobia : Hardware Concept and User Study Design

Kurscheidt, Maximilian; Ostapchuck, Vitaliy; Sottek, Friederike; Rauh, Sebastian Felix; Meixner, Gerrit

doi:10.1109/ichi.2019.8904800

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“…Comparative studies demonstrate that VR and AR exposure therapy are useful alternatives to traditional in-vivo treatments for small animal phobia (Suso-Ribera et al, 2019). For example, there are works exploring AR mobile apps for exposure therapy with cockroaches (Botella et al, 2010) or spiders (Zimmer et al, 2021), which obtained very positive results, and recent works have also combined tactile feedback in these experiences (Kurscheidt et al, 2019).…”

Section: Extended Reality For Mental Healthmentioning

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Extended reality for mental health: Current trends and future challenges

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Navas-Medrano

Soler-Domínguez

2022

Front. Comput. Sci.

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Virtual and augmented reality have been used to diagnose and treat several mental health disorders for decades. Technological advances in these fields have facilitated the availability of commercial solutions for end customers and practitioners. However, there are still some barriers and limitations that prevent these technologies from being widely used by professionals on a daily basis. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a variety of new scenarios in which these technologies could play an essential role, like providing remote treatment. Disorders that traditionally had received less attention are also getting in the spotlight, such as depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder. Improvements in equipment and hardware, like Mixed Reality Head Mounted Displays, could help open new opportunities in the mental health field. Extended reality (XR) is an umbrella term meant to comprise Virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), and augmented reality (AR). While XR applications are eminently visual, other senses are being explored in literature around multisensory interactions, such as auditory, olfactory, or haptic feedback. Applying such stimuli within XR experiences around mental disorders is still under-explored and could greatly enrich the therapeutic experience. This manuscript reviews recent research regarding the use of XR for mental health scenarios, highlighting trends, and potential applications as well as areas for improvement. It also discusses future challenges and research areas in upcoming topics such as the use of wearables, multisensory, and multimodal interaction. The main goal of this paper is to unpack how these technologies could be applied to XR scenarios for mental health to exploit their full potential and follow the path of other health technologies by promoting personalized medicine.

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Section: Extended Reality For Mental Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Extended reality for mental health: Current trends and future challenges

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Navas-Medrano

Soler-Domínguez

2022

Front. Comput. Sci.

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“…Speci c to AR-based wildlife encounters, extant work has largely examined the impact of virtual animals in the context of exposure therapy (Botella et al, 2016;Kurscheidt et al, 2019;Wrzesien et al, 2015). The pro-environmental implications of AR-based wildlife encounters are vastly understudied, though extant literature suggests that such experiences should contribute to speci c pro-environmental outcomes akin to those elicited after in vivo exposure (Kleespies et al, 2020).…”

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Saving species in a snap: On the feasibility and efficacy of augmented reality-based wildlife interactions for conservation

Pimentel

2022

Journal for Nature Conservation

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“…Recently work was carried out by Kurscheidt et al (2019) to develop a vibrotactile arm-sleeve to produce tactile feedback for spiders crawling across the arm. The system provided feedback through a number of vibrating motors at fixed locations across the sleeve controlled by a Raspberry Pi.…”

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Using Ultrasonic Haptics Within an Immersive Spider Exposure Environment to Provide a Multi-Sensorial Experience

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Front. Virtual Real.

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A proof of concept virtual reality system is presented that integrates ultrasonic feedback sensations to provide a demonstrative virtual reality exposure therapy environment containing multiple scenarios with virtual spiders. This system and environment were utilised to conduct a study containing 35 participants with the goal of investigating the effect the environment could have on their level of anxiety. This level of anxiety was measured in three different forms: changes in frontal asymmetry analysis of EEG data, changes in skin conductance levels and subjective units of distress. The Fear of Spiders Questionnaire was used to determine which participants in the study reported to be moderately afraid of spiders. For these participants all three measurement forms for anxiety showed statistically significant increases in a comparison between baseline and scenarios with the virtual spiders. A statistically significant correlation between scores on the Fear of Spiders Questionnaire and changes in anxiety shows the system to have had a greater effect on the anxiety levels of those who were more afraid of spiders, than those who were not. There was also a statistically significant correlation discovered between immersion and increase in anxiety, highlighting the significance of immersion in future virtual reality exposure therapy applications.

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Augmented Reality Exposure Therapy with Tactile Feedback for Small Animal Phobia : Hardware Concept and User Study Design

Cited by 5 publications

References 18 publications

Extended reality for mental health: Current trends and future challenges

Extended reality for mental health: Current trends and future challenges

Saving species in a snap: On the feasibility and efficacy of augmented reality-based wildlife interactions for conservation

Using Ultrasonic Haptics Within an Immersive Spider Exposure Environment to Provide a Multi-Sensorial Experience

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