Examining the potential of virtual reality to deliver remote rehabilitation

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Highlights：

• This project examined the potential of virtual reality to deliver psychotherapy to workers located in remote locations.

• The study compares the experiences of 30 ‘clients’ who participated in both VR and Skype-based mock counselling.

• VR was found to outperform Skype: as a therapeutic tool, perceived realism of the session; and the degree of presence.

• Clients did not report feeling sick or stressed when using VR and found it as easy to use as Skype.

摘要

•This project examined the potential of virtual reality to deliver psychotherapy to workers located in remote locations.•The study compares the experiences of 30 ‘clients’ who participated in both VR and Skype-based mock counselling.•VR was found to outperform Skype: as a therapeutic tool, perceived realism of the session; and the degree of presence.•Clients did not report feeling sick or stressed when using VR and found it as easy to use as Skype.

论文关键词：Virtual reality,Remote rehabilitation,Mental health,Therapeutic tool,Uncanny valley,Behavioral intervention therapy,Avatar

论文评审过程：Received 25 September 2019, Revised 18 November 2019, Accepted 10 December 2019, Available online 16 December 2019, Version of Record 20 December 2019.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.106223