VR-based conversation training program for patients with schizophrenia: a preliminary clinical trial
| Autor: | Kiwan Han, Jae Jin Kim, Sun I. Kim, Kwang Uk Kim, Jeonghun Ku, Hyung Rae Lee, Sung Hyouk Park, Hee Jeong Jang, In Young Kim, Chan-Hyung Kim |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Male Psychotherapist Trainer media_common.quotation_subject Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) Teaching method education Applied psychology Virtual reality behavioral disciplines and activities User-Computer Interface Social skills medicine Humans Conversation Program Development Applied Psychology media_common Internet Verbal Behavior Communication Teaching General Medicine Mental illness medicine.disease Human-Computer Interaction Clinical trial Schizophrenia Female Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Cyberpsychologybehavior : the impact of the Internet, multimedia and virtual reality on behavior and society. 10(4) |
| ISSN: | 1094-9313 |
| Popis: | Schizophrenia is a devastating mental illness and is characterized by hallucinations and delusions as well as social skills deficits. Generally, social skills training designed to help patients develop social skills includes role-playing, but this form of training has typical shortcomings, which are largely due to a trainer's difficulties to project emotion. Virtual reality (VR)-based techniques have the potential to solve these difficulties, because they provide a computer-generated but realistic three-dimensional world and humanlike avatars that can provide emotional stimuli. In this paper, we report on a method of implementing virtual environments (VEs) in order to train people with schizophrenia to develop conversational skills in specific situations, which could overcome the shortcomings of or complement conventional role-playing techniques. The paper reports the efficacy of the proposed approach in a preliminary clinical trial with 10 patients with schizophrenia. |
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