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A Driving Simulator Designed for the Care of Trucker Suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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It appears that multiple factors may impact the mental and physical health of truckers. Moreover, victims of fatal injured accidents involving large trucks are mainly non-occupants of trucks. From these observations, it appears that truck drivers are likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Our work addresses this point. This chapter describes the realization of a truck simulator for the care of truckers suffering from PTSD. Our contribution concerns the development of a serious game (SG), for not only exposing the user but also offering a familiar environment inside which he can act in order to recover his ability to face the traumatic situation. We rely on two main axes to design such a game: (a) the game mechanics to allow the user to learn new associations to the stimuli related to the fear and (b) the personalization of the virtual environment.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (UQAC), Chicoutimi, QC, Canada

    Corentin Haidon, Adrien Ecrepont & Bob-Antoine J. Menelas

  2. GRAP, Occupational Psychology Clinic, Saguenay, QC, Canada

    Benoit Girard

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Haidon, C., Ecrepont, A., Girard, B., Menelas, BA.J. (2017). A Driving Simulator Designed for the Care of Trucker Suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In: Ma, M., Oikonomou, A. (eds) Serious Games and Edutainment Applications . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51645-5_19

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