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Narrative Approach to Assess Fear of Heights in Virtual Environments

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2016)

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This paper presents an approach to the detection and identification of measurable human responses to heights inside a virtual environment. Biometric data such as heart rate and movement reactions are acquired during the execution of a task within a specific framework, signal based analysis is done to validate behavioral responses and interpretation of fear. Thus, giving a better understanding of the effect and extend of these stimuli in a person on a controlled virtual scene.

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Acknowledgments

This research project, with identification “ID INV-ING-2115” has been funded by the Vicerrectoría de Investigaciones department of the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada.

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  1. Multimedia Research Group, Military Nueva Granada University, Bogotá, Colombia

    Angelo D. Moro, Christian Quintero & Wilson J. Sarmiento

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Correspondence to Wilson J. Sarmiento .

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  1. University of Nevada , Reno, Nevada, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center , Moffett Field, California, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute , Reno, Nevada, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. The Australian National University , O'Malley, Aust Capital Terr, Australia

    Fatih Porikli

  6. Pilot AI Labs , Redwood City, California, USA

    Sandra Skaff

  7. University of Florida , Gainesville, Florida, USA

    Alireza Entezari

  8. Google Inc. , Mountain View, California, USA

    Jianyuan Min

  9. Osaka University , Osaka, Japan

    Daisuke Iwai

  10. The MOVES Institute , Monterey, California, USA

    Amela Sadagic

  11. University of Arizona , Tucson, Arizona, USA

    Carlos Scheidegger

  12. Université Paris-Sud , Orsay, France

    Tobias Isenberg

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Moro, A.D., Quintero, C., Sarmiento, W.J. (2016). Narrative Approach to Assess Fear of Heights in Virtual Environments. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10072. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50835-1_62

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