Acrophobia is an abnormal fear of heights. Medications or cognitive-behavior methods have been mainly used as a treatment Lately the Virtual Reality(VR) technology has been applied to that kind of anxiety disorders. YR is a new technology which makes ...
Acrophobia is an abnormal fear of heights. Medications or cognitive-behavior methods have been mainly used as a treatment Lately the Virtual Reality(VR) technology has been applied to that kind of anxiety disorders. YR is a new technology which makes humans communicate with computer. It allows the user to see. hear, feel and interact in a three-demensional virture world created graphically. A virtual environment provides patient with stimuli which arouses phobia, and exposing to that environment makes him having ability to over come the fear. In this study the elevator stimutator that composed with a position sensor, head mount display, and audio system, is suggested. Virture reality exposure was found to be at least as effective as exposure in vivo in anxiety and avoidance as measured wity the Acrophobia Questionnaire and even more diffective on the Attitude towards Heights Questionnaire. To illustrate the physiological difference between a person who has a feel of phobia and without phobia, heart rate was measured during experiment. And also measured a person's Heart Rate(HR) after the virtual reality training and in a real building elevator.
In this study, we demonstrated the subjective effectiveness of virtual reality psychotherapy through the clinical experiment.