{"id":129,"date":"2018-01-24T22:30:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T22:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/?page_id=129"},"modified":"2018-01-24T22:30:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T22:30:33","slug":"current-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/?page_id=129","title":{"rendered":"Current projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Current projects<\/h2>\n
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Recently completed research projects<\/h2>\n

VRMI served as the Dissemination and Exploitation Workpackage Leader for the INTERSTRESS grant funded by the ICT for Health and Well-Being Unit of\u00a0DG-CNECT, European Commission.<\/p>\n

VRMI was also in charge of performing the Marketing Trial for the project and served as a Clinical Partner. \u00a0The project was complete in February 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
INTERSTRESS Tests Technology Solution to Stress<\/strong><\/p>\n

What if lowering your stress level was as easy and as much fun as playing a video game? What if all of the work was automated for you, with reminders on your mobile phone? What if the system that achieved this was so smart, it changed the program the second you changed your behavior?<\/p>\n

This is the vision of a new project funded by ICT for Health, European Commission. Called Interreality in the Management and Treatment of Stress-Related Disorders, or INTERSTRESS for short, the project aims to design, develop, and test an advanced ICT-based solution for the assessment and treatment of psychological stress.<\/p>\n

The project\u2019s creators define \u201cinterreality\u201d as a hybrid, closed-loop, empowering experience bridging both physical and virtual worlds into one seamless reality. In other words, behavior in the physical world will influence the virtual world experience, and behavior in the virtual world will influence the real-world experience. Clinical use of interreality is based on a closed-loop concept that involves the use of technology for assessing, adjusting, and\/or moderating the emotional regulation of the individual. This is achieved by increasing the individual\u2019s coping skills and appraisal of the environment based upon a comparison of the individual\u2019s behavioural and physiologic response with a training or performance criterion. The project will provide a proof of concept of the proposed system with clinical validation.<\/p>\n

The objectives of the project may read like something out of science fiction, but the researchers want to educate the public that these objectives are attainable based on scientific fact:<\/strong><\/p>\n