In therapy with avatars
(PhysOrg.com) -- Combating phobias and psychotic disorders using virtual technology. This is what the work of TU Delft researcher Willem-Paul Brinkman involves. In the latest edition of Delft Outlook,...
View ArticleVirtual natural environments and benefits to health
A new position paper by researchers at the European Centre for the Environment and Human Health (ECEHH - part of the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry) and the University of Birmingham has...
View ArticleWeight loss success in a 3-D virtual world
(Medical Xpress) -- Participants in two weight-loss programs - one involving traditional health club sessions and the other delivered online in a 3D virtual world - lost similar amounts of weight and...
View ArticleNursing care in a virtual world
Fishermen on boats, they eat all kinds of stuff, says Nursing Professor Antonia Arnaert. She is voluble in her excitement about her most recent research project, which involved teaching patients with...
View ArticleDigital worlds can help autistic children to develop social skills
The benefits of virtual worlds can be used to help autistic children develop social skills beyond their anticipated levels, suggest early findings from new research funded by the Economic and Social...
View ArticleNo hands required -- scientists achieve precise control of virtual flight
Scientists have designed a novel, noninvasive system that allows users to control a virtual helicopter using only their minds, as reported in the online journal PLoS ONE on Oct. 26. The researchers,...
View ArticleDoctors look to treat sick children in virtual worlds
Doctors in a domed laboratory in Canada are designing a virtual world where they hope to one day treat traumatized children with colorful avatars using toy-like medical gadgets.
View ArticleResearchers make clinical trials a virtual reality
Clinical trials can be time-consuming, expensive and intrusive, but they are also necessary. Researchers at the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma have developed an invention that...
View ArticleVirtual reality could help people lose weight, fight prejudice, research says
(Medical Xpress)—Internet-based interactive games and social media outlets have become intertwined with the physical realities of millions of people around the world. When an individual strongly...
View ArticleInvestigating the bystander effect: Virtual Reality as a viable platform for...
The bystander effect is well-known in behavioural psychology and suggests that the more people who witnessing a violent emergency the less likely it is that someone will intervene. It was first...
View ArticleVirtual superheroes more helpful in real world too
Having virtual super-powers in a game may incite people to better behavior in the real world, according to research published January 30 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Robin Rosenberg and...
View ArticleWeight loss programs via virtual reality
Weight loss is a topic of concern for nearly 36% of Americans who are considered obese. There are many barriers that can interfere with weight loss. For those attending face-to-face weight loss...
View ArticleStudy shows that individual brain cells track where we are and how we move
(Medical Xpress)—Leaving the house in the morning may seem simple, but with every move we make, our brains are working feverishly to create maps of the outside world that allow us to navigate and to...
View ArticleVirtual world to help relieve patients' pain
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers in Birmingham are hoping to use the hi-tech world of virtual reality in a bid to relieve the pain of hospital patients.
View ArticleResearchers find form of virtual body impacts perception with immersive...
(Medical Xpress)—An international team of researchers has found that the form of a virtual body an adult person takes in immersive virtual reality experiments can impact the perceived size of objects...
View ArticleAnticipation and navigation: Do your legs know what your tongue is doing?
(Medical Xpress)—To survive, animals must explore their world to find the necessities of life. It's a complex task, requiring them to form them a mental map of their environment to navigate the safest...
View ArticleResearchers find virtual computer-based world an effective learning environment
(Boston)—Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers have demonstrated the potential of using a virtual computer environment for distance healthcare education for an international audience...
View ArticleBrain's reaction to virtual reality should prompt further study, suggests new...
UCLA neurophysicists have found that space-mapping neurons in the brain react differently to virtual reality than they do to real-world environments. Their findings could be significant for people who...
View ArticleSmoothing the path to an independent life for people with cognitive deficits
Virtual reality is a powerful tool to simulate real-life environments and situations. Scientists from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University are exploring the medium as a way to help people with...
View ArticlePeople conform to the norm—even if the norm is a computer
Often enough it is human nature to conform. This tendency makes us follow the lead of computers, even if the machines give us the wrong advice. This is the finding of a study in Psychonomic Bulletin...
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