Education About Hallucinations Using an Internet Virtual Reality System: A Qualitative Survey
| Autor: | James N. Cook, Peter Mackinlay Yellowlees |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Male Adolescent Hallucinations Teaching method media_common.quotation_subject Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) Applied psychology Virtual reality computer.software_genre Education User-Computer Interface Surveys and Questionnaires Perception medicine Humans media_common Psychiatry Internet Multimedia business.industry Teaching Educational Technology Educational technology General Medicine Mental illness medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Personal computer Female The Internet business Psychology computer |
| Zdroj: | Academic Psychiatry. 30:534-539 |
| ISSN: | 1042-9670 |
| DOI: | 10.1176/appi.ap.30.6.534 |
| Popis: | The authors evaluate an Internet virtual reality technology as an education tool about the hallucinations of psychosis. This is a pilot project using Second Life, an Internet-based virtual reality system in which a virtual reality environment was constructed to simulate the auditory and visual hallucinations of two patients with schizophrenia. Eight hundred sixty-three self-referred users took a self-guided tour. Five hundred seventy-nine (69%) of the users who toured the environment completed a survey. Of the survey responders, 440 (76%) thought the environment improved their understanding of auditory hallucinations 69% thought it improved their understanding of visual hallucinations, and 82% said they would recommend the environment to a friend. Computer simulations of the perceptual phenomena of psychiatric illness are feasible with existing personal computer technology. Integration of the evaluation survey into the environment itself was possible. The use of Internet-connected graphics environments holds promise for public education about mental illness. |
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