Interreality: A new paradigm for e-health
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Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Italy
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Psychology Department, Catholic University of Milan, Italy
The presentation introduces “interreality”, a personalized immersive e-therapy whose main novelty is an hybrid, closed-loop empowering experience bridging physical and virtual worlds. The main feature of interreality is a twofold link between the virtual and the real world: (a) behaviour in physical world influences the experience in the virtual one; (b) behaviour in the virtual world influences the experience in the real one. This is achieved through: (1) 3D Shared Virtual Worlds: role-playing experiences in which one or more users interact with one another within a 3D world; (2) Bio and Activity Sensors (From the Real to the Virtual World): They are used to track the emotional/health/activty status of the user and to influence his/her experience in the virtual world (aspect, activity and access); (3) Mobile Internet Appliances (From the Virtual to the Real One): In interreality, the social and individual user activity in the virtual world has a direct link with the users’ life through a mobile phone/digital assistant. The clinical use of the interreality paradigm will be discussed using a scenario-based approach.
Conference:
Annual CyberTherapy and CyberPsychology 2009 conference, Villa Caramora, Italy, 21 Jun - 23 Jun, 2009.
Presentation Type:
Oral Presentation
Topic:
Oral Presentations
Citation:
Riva
G
(2009). Interreality: A new paradigm for e-health.
Front. Neuroeng.
Conference Abstract:
Annual CyberTherapy and CyberPsychology 2009 conference.
doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.14.2009.06.086
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Received:
20 Mar 2009;
Published Online:
20 Mar 2009.
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Correspondence:
Giuseppe Riva, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy, giuseppe.riva@unicatt.it