Numerous reports indicate that the incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in
returning OEF/OIF military personnel is creating a significant healthcare challenge. These …

This article serves as an overview and introduction to the discipline of cyberpsychology.
Research and scholarship on the interaction of technology and human behavior through the …

Objective This study compared the efficacy of a technician-assisted single-session virtual
reality exposure therapy (VRET) for the treatment of spider phobia featuring low-cost …

When people are in emotional distress, they often seek support. Virtual humans may provide
unique and complementary benefits to human support provision, given that virtual humans …

Abstract Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are promising software to communicate
with patients but no study has tested them in the diagnostic field of mental disorders. The …

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a severe psychiatric disorder with profound public
health impact due to its high prevalence, chronic nature, accompanying functional …

Objective Virtual humans are likely to enhance the delivery of health care over the next
decade. Virtual humans are artificially intelligent computer agents with hyperrealistic …

Background Automated virtual reality exposure therapies (VRETs) are self-help treatments
conducted by oneself and supported by a virtual therapist embodied visually and/or with …

In the last decades, the applied approach for the use of virtual reality (VR) and augmented
reality (AR) on clinical and health psychology has grown exponentially. These technologies …

During face-to-face interactions, people naturally integrate nonverbal behaviors such as
facial expressions and body postures as part of the conversation to infer the communicative …