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- Title
How immersive virtual reality can become a key tool to advance research and psychotherapy of eating and weight disorders.
- Authors
Behrens, Simone C.; Streuber, Stephan; Keizer, Anouk; Giel, Katrin E.
- Abstract
Immersive virtual reality technology (VR) still waits for its wide dissemination in research and psychotherapy of eating and weight disorders. Given the comparably high efforts in producing a VR setup, we outline that the technology’s breakthrough needs tailored exploitation of specific features of VR and user-centered design of setups. In this paper, we introduce VR hardware and review the specific properties of immersive VR versus real- world setups providing examples how they improved existing setups. We then summarize current approaches to make VR a tool for psychotherapy of eating and weight disorders and introduce user-centered design of VR environments as a solution to support their further development. Overall, we argue that exploitation of the specific properties of VR can substantially improve existing approaches for research and therapy of eating and weight disorders. To produce more than pilot setups, iterative development of VR setups within a user-centered design approach is needed.
- Publication
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022, Vol 13, p1
- ISSN
1664-0640
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1011620