Sustainable Development Goals
Abstract/Objectives
Drug addiction is a chronic disorder associated with many of the emotional or cognitive problems observed in addicted individu- als. As a result, drug-addicted patients often display deficits in their mind-body awareness and easily ignore or fail to identify emotional or environmental cues. This study conducted a needs assessment study to gain guidelines for incorporating virtual re- ality and biofeedback technologies to assist psychotherapists in raising patients’ awareness and identifying their cues in psychother- apy. Our results identify current difficulties to reinforce mind-body awareness and correct attributions of craving stimuli. Also, we sum- marized concerns and the potential to promote the effectiveness of psychotherapy when applying virtual reality and biofeedback tech- nologies to induce cravings. We also proposed a preliminary design of technology solutions to incorporate clinical-friendly VR-based craving inducing along with real-time biofeedback for enabling psy- chotherapists to jointly review the induced craving events based on the collected information.
Results/Contributions
Keywords
VR
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