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Using an adaptive display for the treatment of emotional disorders

Azucena García-palaciosBeatriz ReyRosa Mª BañosCristina BotellaS. QueroMariano AlcañizVerónica Guillén

subject

Standard of careAdjustment disordersmedicineVirtual spacePost treatmentmedicine.diseasePsychologyClinical psychologyPreliminary analysis

description

A preliminary study on the use of an adaptive display for treating emotional disorders is presented. This adaptive display (named EMMA) varies the contents that are presented depending on the emotions of the user at each moment. The application has been designed to help in the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Adjustment Disorder (AD). The specific objective of the present work is to test the effectiveness of this adaptive display, specifically the acceptance of the treatment by patients. EMMA's tools are compared with the standard of care for PTSD and AD. Results showed differences only for the variable aversiveness. Participants in the EMMA condition evaluated the treatment less unpleasant at post treatment, compared to participants in the traditional condition.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2006-04-21CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
https://doi.org/10.1145/1125451.1125574