| Title |
The Development of Virtual Reality Telemedicine System for Treatment of Acrophobia |
| Authors |
류종현(Ryu Jong Hyun) ; 백승화(Beack Seung Hwa) ; 백승은(Paek Seung Eun) ; 홍성찬(Hong Sung Chan) |
| Keywords |
Acrophobia ; Virtual Reality ; Telemedicine |
| Abstract |
Acrophobia is an abnormal fear of heights. Medications or cognitive-behavior methods have been mainly used as a treatment. Lately the virtual reality technology has been applied to that kind of anxiety disorders. A virtual environment provides patient with stimuli which arouses phobia, and exposing to that environment makes him having ability to over come the fear. Recently, the patient can take diagnose from a medical doctor in distance with the telemedicine system. The hospital and doctors can get the medical data, audio, video, signals in the actual examination room or operating room via a live interactive system. Audio visual and multimedia conference service, online questionary, ECG signal transfer system, update system are needed in this system. Virtual reality simulation system that composed with a position sensor, head mount display, and audio system, is also included in this telemedicine system. In this study, we tried this system to the acrophobia patient in distance. |