VITAKI: A Vibrotactile Prototyping Toolkit for Virtual Reality and Video Games

Martínez, José María López; García, Arturo S.; Oliver, Miguel; Molina, José Pascual; González, Pascual

doi:10.1080/10447318.2014.941272

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“…The content, frequency, and circumstances where GTP were experienced have been suggested to be important for how GTP are appraised (e.g., Ortiz de Gortari & Griffiths, 2014a;2014b). The effects of priming and neural adaptations manifest in day-to-day context derived from playing videogames should be investigated further, particularly due to the commercialization of Virtual Reality devices that enhance immersive experiences (Martínez, García, Oliver, Molina, & González, 2014), assessing the implications of the prevalence of GTP experiences for certain periods of times.…”

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Prevalence and Characteristics of Game Transfer Phenomena: A Descriptive Survey Study

Gortari

Griffiths

2016

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

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Previous qualitative studies suggest that gamers experience Game Transfer Phenomena (GTP), a variety of non-volitional phenomena related to playing videogames including thoughts, urges, images, sounds when not playing. To investigate (i) which types of GTP were more common and (ii) their general characteristics, the present study surveyed a total of 2,362 gamers via an online survey. The majority of the participants were male, students, aged between 18 and 27 years, and 'hard-core' gamers. Most participants reported having experienced at least one type of GTP at some point (96.6%), the majority having experienced GTP more than once with many reporting 6 to 10 different types of GTP. Results demonstrated that videogame players experienced (i) altered visual perceptions (ii) altered auditory perceptions (iii) altered body perceptions (iv) automated mental processes, and (v) behaviors. In most cases, GTP could not be explained by being under the influence of a psychoactive substance. The GTP experiences were usually shortlived, tended to occur after videogame playing rather than during play, occurred recurrently, and usually occurred while doing day-to-day activities. One in five gamers had experienced some A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 2 type of distress or dysfunction due to GTP. Many experienced GTP as pleasant and some wanted GTP to happen again.

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Prevalence and Characteristics of Game Transfer Phenomena: A Descriptive Survey Study

Gortari

Griffiths

2016

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

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“…One is simulating virtual environments that match color and intensity maps of real light bulbs and audio systems. Moreover, new stimuli, as those associated with haptic sense, such as vibrotactile stimuli (Martínez et al, 2014 ), should be explored to increase the environments' sensation of reality. Another challenge is that the user should wear as less devices as possible, which in practice means to consider more complex devices than conventional head-mounted displays.…”

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Human-Avatar Symbiosis for the Treatment of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Schizophrenia through Virtual/Augmented Reality and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Fernández-Caballero

Navarro

Fernández-Sotos

et al. 2017

Front. Neuroinform.

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This perspective paper faces the future of alternative treatments that take advantage of a social and cognitive approach with regards to pharmacological therapy of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) in patients with schizophrenia. AVH are the perception of voices in the absence of auditory stimulation and represents a severe mental health symptom. Virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR) and brain computer interfaces (BCI) are technologies that are growing more and more in different medical and psychological applications. Our position is that their combined use in computer-based therapies offers still unforeseen possibilities for the treatment of physical and mental disabilities. This is why, the paper expects that researchers and clinicians undergo a pathway toward human-avatar symbiosis for AVH by taking full advantage of new technologies. This outlook supposes to address challenging issues in the understanding of non-pharmacological treatment of schizophrenia-related disorders and the exploitation of VR/AR and BCI to achieve a real human-avatar symbiosis.

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“…There are two different approaches, one of which uses specific devices developed by Sienko et al ( 2013 ), Bark et al ( 2015 ) and Kato et al ( 2015 ), designed to solve a specific problem. Others make use of toolkits that can be integrated into several VR platforms, developed by Minamizawa et al ( 2012 ) and Martínez et al ( 2014 ), for designing new vibrotactile stimuli.…”

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Adaptive, Multisensorial, Physiological and Social: The Next Generation of Telerehabilitation Systems

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González

López-Jaquero

et al. 2018

Front. Neuroinform.

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Some people require special treatments for rehabilitating physical, cognitive or even social capabilities after an accident or degenerative illness. However, the ever-increasing costs of looking after an aging population, many of whom suffer chronic diseases, is straining the finances of healthcare systems around Europe. This situation has given rise to a great deal of attention being paid to the development of telerehabilitation (TR) systems, which have been designed to take rehabilitation beyond hospitals and care centers. In this article, we propose which features should be addressed in the development of TR systems, that is, they should consider adaptive, multisensorial, physiological and social aspects. For this aim, the research project Vi-SMARt is being conducted for evaluating whether and how different technologies, such as virtual reality (VR), multi-sensorial feedback, or telemonitoring, may be exploited for the development of the next generation of TR systems. Beyond traditional aural and visual feedback, the exploitation of haptic sense by using devices such as haptic gloves or wristbands, can provide patients with additional guidance in the rehabilitation process. For telemonitoring, Electroencephalography (EEG) devices show signs of being a promising approach, not only to monitor patients’ emotions, but also to obtain neuro-feedback useful for controlling his/her interaction with the system and thus to provide a better rehabilitation experience.

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VITAKI: A Vibrotactile Prototyping Toolkit for Virtual Reality and Video Games

Cited by 30 publications

References 46 publications

Prevalence and Characteristics of Game Transfer Phenomena: A Descriptive Survey Study

Prevalence and Characteristics of Game Transfer Phenomena: A Descriptive Survey Study

Human-Avatar Symbiosis for the Treatment of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Schizophrenia through Virtual/Augmented Reality and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Adaptive, Multisensorial, Physiological and Social: The Next Generation of Telerehabilitation Systems

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