Virtual Reality in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy : a Study on Social Anxiety Disorder
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This paper presents a study about the use of virtual reality techniques Social Anxiety Disorder therapy. The final idea of this technique is to treat social phobic people only by short time exposition in a dedicated stress environment parameterized in real-time. The technique is applied to the problematic of speaking in public with a symbolic representation of an audience. Nevertheless, the same methodology can be used to treat different phobias.
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