The Project on Virtual Reality Intelligent Multi-sensor System for the Treatment of Anxiety-related Disorders (INTREPID) is aimed at developing a multi-sensor context-aware virtual reality system for the treatment of anxiety-related disorders.
Our hypothesis is that the combination of virtual reality and biofeedback that directly modifies the virtual environment, compared with virtual reality alone, will result in a better and faster relaxation learning. If so, this new instrument created to treat anxiety disorders could be applied and tested even in other anxiety-related pathologies.
The authors have nothing to disclose.
The present work was supported by the European Union IST Programme (Project “INTREPID – A Virtual Reality Intelligent Multi-sensor Wearable System for Phobias’ Treatment” – IST-2002-507464).