A virtual reality claustrophobia therapy system - implementation and test

Proceedings - IEEE Virtual Reality

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 179-182

  Bruce, Morgan ^a   Regenbrecht, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Claustrophobia; Virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET); XNA

Indexed keywords

CLAUSTROPHOBIA; CLINICAL SAMPLES; DELIVERY MECHANISM; EXPOSURE THERAPY; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; IMMERSIVE; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; SYSTEM CONCEPTS; TREATMENT OUTCOMES; VIRTUAL REALITY SYSTEM; XNA;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 67649761362     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VR.2009.4811020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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