The Use of VR for Creating Therapeutic Environments for the Health and Wellbeing of Military Personnel, Their Families and Their Communities

McIntosh, Jacqueline; Rodgers, Maria; Marques, Bruno; Gibbard, Alysha

doi:10.26686/wgtn.12413333.v1

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“…The use of VR, however, is not without limitations. 36 For example, our research found that the visually impaired people's preference was for sound reduction, indicating a preference for carpeting which contradicts other research seeking more sound reflection over silence since those with visual impairments derive information from sound created by reflection of solid and void. This needs further testing on a wider group of participants to validate the accuracy and clarity of the depicted impairments and their emotional response.…”

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Simulating impairment through virtual reality

McIntosh

Marques

Harkness

2020

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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Research on architectural technology for health care has rapidly increased in recent years; however, little research has been conducted on the use of virtual reality for simulating impairment. This exploratory research maps the experiences of people with impairments in the often-overlooked corridors and waiting rooms of an emergency department. It questions whether the experience of an impairment can be usefully simulated for empathetic design. While using participatory processes to develop a virtual reality simulation of waiting areas, this research applies three representative impairments and then surveys 30 architectural designers to find the emotional responses of the unimpaired to the design intervention. While this research is preliminary, it is particularly valuable for the comprehension of proposed designs during the early planning and design phases, without costly and time-consuming use of full participatory processes. It finds there is significant potential for the use of virtual reality as a technology to simulate the experiences of these spaces by individuals with impairment, enabling empathetic design, and offers direction for future research.

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Simulating impairment through virtual reality

McIntosh

Marques

Harkness

2020

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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“…In VR technology, the technology itself opens up to many new possibilities for innovations in areas such as healthcare [ 88 ], military [ 89 , 90 ], and education [ 91 ].…”

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EEG-Based Emotion Recognition: A State-of-the-Art Review of Current Trends and Opportunities

Suhaimi

Mountstephens

Teo

2020

Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

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Emotions are fundamental for human beings and play an important role in human cognition. Emotion is commonly associated with logical decision making, perception, human interaction, and to a certain extent, human intelligence itself. With the growing interest of the research community towards establishing some meaningful “emotional” interactions between humans and computers, the need for reliable and deployable solutions for the identification of human emotional states is required. Recent developments in using electroencephalography (EEG) for emotion recognition have garnered strong interest from the research community as the latest developments in consumer-grade wearable EEG solutions can provide a cheap, portable, and simple solution for identifying emotions. Since the last comprehensive review was conducted back from the years 2009 to 2016, this paper will update on the current progress of emotion recognition using EEG signals from 2016 to 2019. The focus on this state-of-the-art review focuses on the elements of emotion stimuli type and presentation approach, study size, EEG hardware, machine learning classifiers, and classification approach. From this state-of-the-art review, we suggest several future research opportunities including proposing a different approach in presenting the stimuli in the form of virtual reality (VR). To this end, an additional section devoted specifically to reviewing only VR studies within this research domain is presented as the motivation for this proposed new approach using VR as the stimuli presentation device. This review paper is intended to be useful for the research community working on emotion recognition using EEG signals as well as for those who are venturing into this field of research.

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“…In the past, VR has been used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder in sufferers, particularly soldiers (Senson, 2016) but there is a growing study of the use of VR landscapes as a therapeutic space that can underwrite health and wellbeing (McIntosh et al, 2019, p. 185). McIntosh et al (2019) have explored this territory showing that “a multi-sensory engagement with a landscape can establish a closer relationship with the user of that landscape, in both virtual and real environments” (p. 189). Their research shows that VR landscapes have the capacity to reconnect people to their homelands—when it is impossible to visit—and to foster social and health wellbeing.…”

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Trauma and healing at Western Australia’s former native missions

Tiwari

Stephens

2020

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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In Western Australia, the removal of mixed-descent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island children from parents into church-run institutions has caused ongoing damage to the social and emotional wellbeing of survivors and their descendants. Curtin University and Aboriginal organisations are attempting to utilise a number of defunct mission sites as Healing Centres for Stolen Generation survivors. But the rapid deterioration of missions and restricted access constrain use of the sites. Virtual reality offers a safe and accessible alternative to physical access. Layering this digital environment with knowledge and the lived experience of survivors and interweaving past and present experiences has the potential to provide a powerful platform for healing survivors and their families. A key aspect of this project was to ensure that a strength-based approach is used where Aboriginal people power share and collaborate in the projects ensuring that they have tangible control over their story and heritage.

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The Use of VR for Creating Therapeutic Environments for the Health and Wellbeing of Military Personnel, Their Families and Their Communities

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Simulating impairment through virtual reality

Simulating impairment through virtual reality

EEG-Based Emotion Recognition: A State-of-the-Art Review of Current Trends and Opportunities

Trauma and healing at Western Australia’s former native missions

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