Development of a Virtual Reality Tool for Therapy and Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally, often requiring lifelong treatment. In recent years new treatment methods have been tested, which include serious gaming, in particular, with virtual reality technologies. This project aims to develop a virtual...
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| description | Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally, often requiring lifelong treatment. In recent years new treatment methods have been tested, which include serious gaming, in particular, with virtual reality technologies. This project aims to develop a virtual reality tool capable of assisting in the therapy of schizophrenia patients. As a starting point, a systematic review was conducted in March 2021 using IEEE Xplore, Science Direct and dl.acm databases, from which 53 results were obtained, and 17 were filtered, revealing both, common aspects, as well as the differences, between healthy individuals and patients with schizophrenia when exposed to the technology and to different scenarios in virtual reality. Continued exposure to virtual reality exercises revealed improvements in the patient’s quality of life, in some studies. This demonstrates that virtual reality can be used as a diagnosis and therapy tool for patients with schizophrenia. This project hopes to develop one such tool, and have it tested with schizophrenia patients while supervised by a medical team, to determine whether it is a viable alternative to traditional therapy, since it is easy and convenient to use. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2433ae469d3e4f439f3e7831c4d0f2b32023-08-14T10:24:56ZengIFSA Publishing, S.L.Sensors & Transducers2306-85151726-54792022-10-0125953744Development of a Virtual Reality Tool for Therapy and Diagnosis of SchizophreniaAndreia MENDES0Duarte DUQUE1Vítor CARVALHO22Ai – School of Technology, IPCA2Ai – School of Technology, IPCA2Ai – School of Technology, IPCASchizophrenia is a serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally, often requiring lifelong treatment. In recent years new treatment methods have been tested, which include serious gaming, in particular, with virtual reality technologies. This project aims to develop a virtual reality tool capable of assisting in the therapy of schizophrenia patients. As a starting point, a systematic review was conducted in March 2021 using IEEE Xplore, Science Direct and dl.acm databases, from which 53 results were obtained, and 17 were filtered, revealing both, common aspects, as well as the differences, between healthy individuals and patients with schizophrenia when exposed to the technology and to different scenarios in virtual reality. Continued exposure to virtual reality exercises revealed improvements in the patient’s quality of life, in some studies. This demonstrates that virtual reality can be used as a diagnosis and therapy tool for patients with schizophrenia. This project hopes to develop one such tool, and have it tested with schizophrenia patients while supervised by a medical team, to determine whether it is a viable alternative to traditional therapy, since it is easy and convenient to use.https://sensorsportal.com/HTML/DIGEST/october_2022/Vol_259/P_3278.pdfvirtual realityschizophreniaserious gamestherapyunity |
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| title | Development of a Virtual Reality Tool for Therapy and Diagnosis of Schizophrenia |
| title_full | Development of a Virtual Reality Tool for Therapy and Diagnosis of Schizophrenia |
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| title_short | Development of a Virtual Reality Tool for Therapy and Diagnosis of Schizophrenia |
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