Use of Virtual Reality for the Therapy of Pensioners with Communication Disorders
Ivan Kovar, Miroslav Musalek · Annals of DAAAM for ... & proceedings of the ... International DAAAM Symposium · 2018
The subject of this article is to find out if there is any possibility that virtual reality can help to heal the people with social anxiety disorder.The aim of the suggested and realized pre-research was to train people in effectively coping with situations they are afraid of, systematically boosting positive thinking and weakening negative mindsets in order to enable people to enjoy a better quality of life without using medication.We organized a pre-research with use of HTC Vive virtual reality device on a small sample of examined respondents with social anxiety disorder in communication skills.Initial results are obtained from questionnaire methods of two type of specialized tests (SPIN and MCQ30).Graphs show improvement of mental state of respondents in case of use new modern methods, especially virtual reality.