TY - GEN
T1 - Haptic mobile augmented reality system for the treatment of phobia of small animals in teenagers
AU - Ramírez-Fernández, Cristina
AU - Morán, Alberto L.
AU - García-Canseco, Eloísa
AU - Meza-Kubo, Victoria
AU - Barreras, Edgar
AU - Valenzuela, Octavio
AU - Hernández, Netzahualcóyotl
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Springer International Publishing AG.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Some of the fears of small animals present in childhood are maintained and cause significant discomfort until the adolescent stage, even causing phobias. A treatment used in the traditional therapy of phobias is the live exposure to the object of fear, however one of the problems with this treatment is patient resistance and eventual therapy abandonment. The use of intelligent environments is an alternative that allows to support the therapy through the virtual, gradual and controlled exposure of the patient to the animal to which s/he is afraid. In this research, we present the design, development and evaluation of a haptic mobile augmented reality system for the treatment of small animals phobia using the TPAD haptic device. The proposed haptic system includes features that allow (i) diagnosing the level of phobia of small animals, (ii) self-adjusting the phobia treatment using support vector machines, and (iii) user progress statistics based on the estimated stress level and time touching the screen. A usability and performance evaluation of the system with 14 teenagers, suggests that the haptic system is perceived as useful and usable, while providing an effective and accessible way to treat the patient and to adjust the therapy challenge level.
AB - Some of the fears of small animals present in childhood are maintained and cause significant discomfort until the adolescent stage, even causing phobias. A treatment used in the traditional therapy of phobias is the live exposure to the object of fear, however one of the problems with this treatment is patient resistance and eventual therapy abandonment. The use of intelligent environments is an alternative that allows to support the therapy through the virtual, gradual and controlled exposure of the patient to the animal to which s/he is afraid. In this research, we present the design, development and evaluation of a haptic mobile augmented reality system for the treatment of small animals phobia using the TPAD haptic device. The proposed haptic system includes features that allow (i) diagnosing the level of phobia of small animals, (ii) self-adjusting the phobia treatment using support vector machines, and (iii) user progress statistics based on the estimated stress level and time touching the screen. A usability and performance evaluation of the system with 14 teenagers, suggests that the haptic system is perceived as useful and usable, while providing an effective and accessible way to treat the patient and to adjust the therapy challenge level.
KW - Haptic mobile augmented reality
KW - Phobia treatment
KW - Teenagers
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85031409923
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-67585-5_65
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-67585-5_65
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85031409923
SN - 9783319675848
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 666
EP - 676
BT - Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence - 11th International Conference, UCAmI 2017, Proceedings
A2 - Singh, Pritpal
A2 - Bravo, Jose
A2 - Ochoa, Sergio F.
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, UCAmI 2017
Y2 - 7 November 2017 through 10 November 2017
ER -