Using virtual reality technology to improve reality for young people with chronic health conditions

Bayan Alsharbi; Deborah Richards

doi:10.1145/3057039.3057080

Using virtual reality technology to improve reality for young people with chronic health conditions

Bayan Alsharbi, Deborah Richards

School of Computing

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Game and Virtual Reality technology is increasingly being used to help humans deal with issues such as anxiety and post-trauma stress disorder. For long term conditions, Intelligent Virtual Agents offer promise for building relationships with humans to assist ongoing management of their health and well-being. This project concerns the use of Game, Virtual Reality and Agent technology to encourage young people to follow treatment advice. Addressing this problem is important as adherence in general is around 50%. As a first start, this paper presents our results that evaluate 12 different virtual character models to see which ones are preferred by young people and whether a sense of relationship has been developed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICCAE 2017
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of 2017 9th International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	11-15
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450348096
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3057039.3057080
Publication status	Published - 18 Feb 2017
Event	9th International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering, ICCAE 2017 - Sydney, Australia Duration: 18 Feb 2017 → 21 Feb 2017

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Conference	9th International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering, ICCAE 2017
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	18/02/17 → 21/02/17

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Adherence
Empathic virtual agent

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Alsharbi, B & Richards, D 2017, Using virtual reality technology to improve reality for young people with chronic health conditions. in ICCAE 2017: Proceedings of 2017 9th International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, pp. 11-15, 9th International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering, ICCAE 2017, Sydney, Australia, 18/02/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3057039.3057080

Using virtual reality technology to improve reality for young people with chronic health conditions. / Alsharbi, Bayan; Richards, Deborah.
ICCAE 2017: Proceedings of 2017 9th International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. p. 11-15.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review

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