Making things public: democracy and government-funded videogames and virtual reality simulations
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on Videogames
The validity of a virtual human experience for interpersonal skills education
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Use of Virtual Reality in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
VMR '09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Virtual and Mixed Reality: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Assessing a virtual baby feeding training system
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Visualisation and Interaction in Africa
Virtual smell: authentic smell diffusion in virtual environments
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Visualisation and Interaction in Africa
Real virtuality: a step change from virtual reality
Proceedings of the 25th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics
Politeness improves interactivity in dense crowds
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
User-profile-based perceived olfactory and visual media synchronization
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP) - Special issue of best papers of ACM MMSys 2013 and ACM NOSSDAV 2013
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is reported to be caused by traumatic events that are outside the range of usual human experiences including (but not limited to) military combat, violent personal assault, being kidnapped or taken hostage and terrorist attacks. Initial data suggests that 1 out of 6 Iraq War veterans are exhibiting symptoms of depression, anxiety and PTSD. Virtual Reality (VR) exposure treatment has been used in previous treatments of PTSD patients with reports of positive outcomes. The aim of the current paper is to present the rationale, technical specifications, application features and user-centered design process for the development of a Virtual Iraq PTSD VR therapy application. The VR treatment environment is being created via the recycling of virtual graphic assets that were initially built for the U.S. Army-funded combat tactical simulation scenario and commercially successful X-Box game, Full Spectrum Warrior, in addition to other available and newly created assets. Thus far we have created a series of customizable virtual scenarios designed to represent relevant contexts for exposure therapy to be conducted in VR, including a city and desert road convoy environment. User-Centered tests with the application are currently underway at the Naval Medical Center-San Diego and within an Army Combat Stress Control Team in Iraq with clinical trials scheduled to commence in February 2006.