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_id: '21174'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Overcoming a range of challenges that traditional therapy faces, VRET yields
great potential for the treatment of phobias such as acrophobia, the fear of heights.
We investigate this potential and present playful user-generated treatment (PUT),
a novel game-based approach for VRET. Based on a requirement analysis consisting
of a literature review and semi-structured interviews with professional therapists,
we designed and implemented the PUT concept as a two-step VR game design. To validate
our approach, we conducted two studies. (1) In a study with 31 non-acrophobic
subjects, we investigated the effect of content creation on player experience,
motivation and height perception, and (2) in an online survey, we collected feedback
from professional therapists. Both studies reveal that the PUT approach is well
applicable. In particular, the analysis of the user study shows that the design
phase leads to increased interest and enjoyment without notably influencing affective
measures during the exposure session. Our work can help guiding researchers and
practitioners at the intersection of game design and exposure therapy.
author:
- first_name: Dmitry
full_name: Alexandrovsky, Dmitry
last_name: Alexandrovsky
- first_name: Georg
full_name: Volkmar, Georg
last_name: Volkmar
- first_name: Maximilian
full_name: Spliethöver, Maximilian
id: '84035'
last_name: Spliethöver
orcid: 0000-0003-4364-1409
- first_name: Stefan
full_name: Finke, Stefan
last_name: Finke
- first_name: Marc
full_name: Herrlich, Marc
last_name: Herrlich
- first_name: Tanja
full_name: Döring, Tanja
last_name: Döring
- first_name: Jan David
full_name: Smeddinck, Jan David
last_name: Smeddinck
- first_name: Rainer
full_name: Malaka, Rainer
last_name: Malaka
citation:
ama: 'Alexandrovsky D, Volkmar G, Spliethöver M, et al. Playful User-Generated Treatment:
A Novel Game Design Approach for VR Exposure Therapy. In: Proceedings of the
Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. CHI PLAY’20. New York,
NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery; 2020:32–45. doi:10.1145/3410404.3414222'
apa: 'Alexandrovsky, D., Volkmar, G., Spliethöver, M., Finke, S., Herrlich, M.,
Döring, T., … Malaka, R. (2020). Playful User-Generated Treatment: A Novel Game
Design Approach for VR Exposure Therapy. In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium
on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (pp. 32–45). New York, NY, USA: Association
for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3410404.3414222'
bibtex: '@inproceedings{Alexandrovsky_Volkmar_Spliethöver_Finke_Herrlich_Döring_Smeddinck_Malaka_2020,
place={New York, NY, USA}, series={CHI PLAY’20}, title={Playful User-Generated
Treatment: A Novel Game Design Approach for VR Exposure Therapy}, DOI={10.1145/3410404.3414222},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in
Play}, publisher={Association for Computing Machinery}, author={Alexandrovsky,
Dmitry and Volkmar, Georg and Spliethöver, Maximilian and Finke, Stefan and Herrlich,
Marc and Döring, Tanja and Smeddinck, Jan David and Malaka, Rainer}, year={2020},
pages={32–45}, collection={CHI PLAY’20} }'
chicago: 'Alexandrovsky, Dmitry, Georg Volkmar, Maximilian Spliethöver, Stefan Finke,
Marc Herrlich, Tanja Döring, Jan David Smeddinck, and Rainer Malaka. “Playful
User-Generated Treatment: A Novel Game Design Approach for VR Exposure Therapy.”
In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play,
32–45. CHI PLAY’20. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2020.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3410404.3414222.'
ieee: 'D. Alexandrovsky et al., “Playful User-Generated Treatment: A Novel
Game Design Approach for VR Exposure Therapy,” in Proceedings of the Annual
Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 2020, pp. 32–45.'
mla: 'Alexandrovsky, Dmitry, et al. “Playful User-Generated Treatment: A Novel Game
Design Approach for VR Exposure Therapy.” Proceedings of the Annual Symposium
on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, Association for Computing Machinery,
2020, pp. 32–45, doi:10.1145/3410404.3414222.'
short: 'D. Alexandrovsky, G. Volkmar, M. Spliethöver, S. Finke, M. Herrlich, T.
Döring, J.D. Smeddinck, R. Malaka, in: Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on
Computer-Human Interaction in Play, Association for Computing Machinery, New York,
NY, USA, 2020, pp. 32–45.'
date_created: 2021-02-04T09:45:38Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:54:48Z
doi: 10.1145/3410404.3414222
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- url: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3410404.3414222
page: 32–45
place: New York, NY, USA
publication: Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in
Play
publication_identifier:
isbn:
- '9781450380744'
publication_status: published
publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
series_title: CHI PLAY'20
status: public
title: 'Playful User-Generated Treatment: A Novel Game Design Approach for VR Exposure
Therapy'
type: conference
user_id: '84035'
year: '2020'
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