Using virtual humans to alleviate social anxiety: Preliminary report from a comparative outcome study

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 154, Issue , 2010, Pages 57-60

  Robillard, Geneviève ^a   Bouchard, Stéphane ^a   Dumoulin, Stéphane ^a   Guitard, Tanya ^a   Klinger, Évelyne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

^b ARTS ET MÉTIERS PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

anxiety; Social anxiety; virtual reality

Indexed keywords

SURVEYS;

ANXIETY; COMBINED TREATMENT; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; MULTICOMPONENTS; PUBLIC SPEAKING; SOCIAL ANXIETIES; TREATMENT GROUP; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 77954595913     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-561-7-57     Document Type: Conference Paper

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