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This manuscript discusses an acrophobia treatment procedure using virtual reality of VR technology and conducts a pilot experiment on feasibility. The core of our treatment produce is a exposure therapy with a strong shock. In our treatment produce, patients wear a head-mounted display or HMD and they are left on the top of a mountain in a virtual space. They are given five minutes to find a way down the mountain and only a way down is to jump off. There are some artifacts for them to do that by themselves. A strong stimulation is given to the patients at the moment of jumping. The experiment results show that our treatment procedure demonstrates the potential for alleviating acrophobia and a stronger stimulation is acceptable for alleviating acrophobia.
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Chang, S., Ishihara, M. (2020). Strong Stimulation with Virtual Reality Treatment for Acrophobia and Its Evaluation. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S. (eds) HCI International 2020 – Late Breaking Posters. HCII 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1294. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60703-6_55
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