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Phobia Treatment: Virtual Reality Approach

Authors:
Samia Loucif
Joao Negreiros
Batool Haj Stifi
Sara Iqbal

Keywords: Phobia; Technology; Virtual Reality; Android app; Face Your Fear (FyF).

Abstract:
A phobia is an overwhelming and exaggerated fear of an object, animal, place, situation, or feeling. Often, people with phobias ignore their symptoms and do not get psychotherapy treatment, either because of the social perspective about people who visit psychologists or simply because they cannot afford the cost of psychotherapy. This research paper proposes a mobile application named FaceYourFear (FyF) integrating Virtual Reality (VR) to help any user to live a cybernetic experience (where the outcomes of a session level can help the patient to move to the next level of treatment), overcome the illness, know about phobia symptoms and get extra information on types of phobias.

Pages: 1 to 5

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2021

Publication date: November 14, 2021

Published in: conference

ISBN: 978-1-61208-927-0

Location: Athens, Greece

Dates: from November 14, 2021 to November 18, 2021