Agata Pasikowska
ABSTRACT
Computer, tablet and smartphone are tools that increasingly accompany us during everyday activities. Given the booming use of the virtual reality and the wide range of people who have access to it, people are increasingly presented with an online alternative to the support of professionals, therapeutic groups organized by healthcare institutions, or significant others (such as family, friends and colleagues). This can be used as a tool for personal development and to cope with stress. Our research program includes creating a virtual reality application to sustain well-being and improve quality of life. It assumes that avatars, representations of a person in the cyberspace, will provide support in the form of a virtual conversation. Dialogue with an imaginary person is as a supportive technique in a stressful situation as creating the list of solutions and on a long term period it can create a specific way to reach the desired change.
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- A dialogue with a virtual imaginary interlocutor as a form of a psychological support for well-being
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