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- Title
The role played by the concept of presence in validating the efficacy of a cybertherapy treatment: a literature review.
- Authors
Spagnolli, Anna; Bracken, Cheryl; Orso, Valeria
- Abstract
The present paper considers the existing research in cybertherapy, which is a psychological therapy carried out with the use of a mediated environment, and examines the way in which the users' sense of presence in the mediated environment can be of relevance for the validation of the intervention. With this purpose, a collection of 41 papers reporting the measurement of presence in the context of a cybertherapy treatment has been identified and examined. The general relevance of presence in cybertherapy and the measurement techniques adopted in the studies collected here are described and discussed. The way in which presence corresponds to establishing internal validity, convergent or predictive validity and external validity of a treatment is examined. In conclusion, a checklist to apply when planning a validation study is proposed, to improve the way in which presence is used.
- Subjects
TELEMEDICINE; MEDICAL telematics; LITERATURE reviews; MENTAL depression
- Publication
Virtual Reality, 2014, Vol 18, Issue 1, p13
- ISSN
1359-4338
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10055-013-0241-x