Design Guidelines for the Implementation of an Interactive Virtual Reality Application that Supports the Rehabilitation of Amputees of Lower Limbs Patients with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

This article describes the way in which emotions become a crucial component that complements the work of HCI in design and validation of applications created in virtual reality (VR) environments, applicable to the recovery processes of psychological disorders of being’s humans, such as PTSD.

[1]  Giuseppe Riva,et al.  Experiential Cognitive Therapy for the Treatment of Panic Disorder With Agoraphobia: Definition of a Clinical Protocol , 2000, Cyberpsychology Behav. Soc. Netw..

[2]  Rosa María Baños Rivera,et al.  Realidad virtual y tratamientos psicológicos: una revisión , 2006 .

[3]  Marielba Zacarias,et al.  Human-Computer Interaction: The Agency Perspective , 2012, Studies in Computational Intelligence.

[4]  Rosalind W. Picard.  Affective Computing , 1997 .

[5]  M. North,et al.  Virtual reality therapy: an effective treatment for phobias. , 1998, Studies in health technology and informatics.

[6]  Paul Dourish,et al.  How emotion is made and measured , 2007, Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud..

[7]  S. Rachman,et al.  Are intrusive thoughts subject to habituation? , 1980, Behaviour research and therapy.

[8]  Giuseppe Riva,et al.  Panic and Agoraphobia in a Virtual World , 2002, Cyberpsychology Behav. Soc. Netw..

[9]  R. Davidson,et al.  Depression: perspectives from affective neuroscience. , 2002, Annual review of psychology.

[10]  James S. Williford,et al.  Virtual Reality Graded Exposure in the Treatment of Acrophobia: A Case Report , 1995 .

[11]  Joseph E LeDoux.  The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life , 1996 .

[12]  Anabel de la Rosa Gómez,et al.  Trastorno por estrés postraumático: eficacia de un programa de tratamiento mediante realidad virtual para víctimas de violencia criminal en población mexicana , 2012 .

[13]  G. Riva,et al.  Cybertherapy - Internet and Virtual Reality as Assessment and Rehabilitation Tools for Clinical Psychology and Neuroscience , 2004, Cybertherapy.

[14]  Thomas F. Cash,et al.  Treatment of Body Image Disturbances. , 2004 .

[15]  Christian Werner Becker-Asano,et al.  WASABI: Affect simulation for agents with believable interactivity , 2008 .

[16]  R. Kessler,et al.  Lifetime and 12-month prevalence of DSM-III-R psychiatric disorders in the United States. Results from the National Comorbidity Survey. , 1994, Archives of general psychiatry.