Behavioral avoidance dynamics in the presence of a virtual spider

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3 SPEC., 2002, Pages 235-243

  Renaud, Patrice ^a,b   Bouchard, Stéphane ^a,b   Proulx, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

^b Centre Hospitalier Pierre Janet   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affordance; Anxiety; Behavioral avoidance; Fractal dynamics; Presence; Tracking; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANXIETY DISORDER; BEHAVIORAL AVOIDANCE; FRACTAL DYNAMICS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF EVALUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPIDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0036708418     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2002.802381     Document Type: Article

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