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How to Promote Patients’ Adherence to Treatments based on Virtual Reality? A First Exploration of Virtual Environments Preferences According to Socio-demographic Factors

Authors:
Solène Le Bars
Mathis Cuzin
Jean François Rouzé
Sébastien Rouzé

Keywords: Virtual Reality (VR), Virtual Environments (VE), Socio-demographic characteristics, VR clinical tool.

Abstract:
In the current study, we carried out an online survey that aimed to determine which Virtual Environments (VE) are the most suited to individuals’ socio-demographic characteristics such as age and gender. Our preliminary results notably demonstrated that the participants’ age influenced preferences concerning the four following VE dimensions: esthetics, the will to spend some time in it, the will to further explore it and its relaxing aspect. Thus, our results provide interesting criteria to comprehensively select a relevant VE regarding the targeted population or patients. By adapting Virtual Reality (VR) tools to maximally fit the population characteristics, patients’ adherence to the VR treatment should consequently be enhanced.

Pages: 20 to 23

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2021

Publication date: October 3, 2021

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4553

ISBN: 978-1-61208-892-1

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from October 3, 2021 to October 7, 2021