SpeakApp-Kids! Virtual reality training to reduce fear of public speaking in children – A proof of concept

An experiment on fear of public speaking in virtual reality.

Can virtual reality exposure therapy be used to treat people with social phobia? To answer this question it is vital to known if people will respond to virtual humans (avatars) in a virtual social setting in the same way they would to real humans. If someone is extremely anxious with real people, will they also be anxious when faced with simulated people, despite knowing that the avatars are co...

Development of a virtual audience concept for public speaking training in immersive virtual environments

Virtual Reality Therapy: A Means of Reducing Public Speaking Anxiety

In recent years, there has been considerable interest in the development of treatments to help people reduce their public speaking anxiety (PSA) in a variety of circumstances. A review of literature suggests that several treatments have been found to be effective in reducing communication apprehension. However, it has not been determined whether Virtual Reality Therapy (VRT) has proven to be as...

Public Speaking in Virtual Reality: Facing an Audience of Avatars

hat happens when someone talks in public to an audience they know to be entirely computer gen-erated—to an audience of avatars? If the virtual audience seems attentive, well-behaved, and interested, if they show positive facial expressions with complimen-tary actions such as clapping and nodding, does the speaker infer correspondingly positive evaluations of performance and show fewer signs of ...

Virtual Reality Training for Public Speaking—A QUEST-VR Framework Validation

Good public speaking skills are essential in many professions as well as everyday life, but speech anxiety is a common problem. While it is established that public speaking training in virtual reality (VR) is effective, comprehensive studies on the underlying factors that contribute to this success are rare. The “quality evaluation of user-system interaction in virtual reality” framework for ev...