Using AL to Enhance VR Anxiety Disorder Treatment

使用 AL 增强 VR 焦虑症治疗

• 批准号: 6443585
• 负责人: EUGENE SANTOS
• 金额: $ 10.17万
• 依托单位: VRSIMULATIONS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-27 至 2003-03-26
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6443585
• 关键词: anxiety disorders; artificial intelligence; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; computer assisted patient care; computer human interaction; computer simulation; computer system design /evaluation; human subject; interactive multimedia; library; phobias; psychotherapy

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) This project will develop an artificial intelligence to provide the core functionality for virtual reality and computer based treatments for anxiety disorders. The use of artificial intelligence offers a number of advantages over existing treatments: (1) artificial intelligence provides personalized treatment - using multiple real time physiologic and subjective anxiety feedback loops, it adjusts exposure stimuli "on the fly" to maximize outcome, (2) as an autonomous system, it has the potential to be used safely in a wide range of applications from therapist guided interventions to minimal therapist contact interventions to self guided treatment, (3) it is adaptive and flexible, continuously learning what works and doesn't work, applying those changes in real time, and storing them for later use, (4) it can monitor levels of presence and adjust patient/exposure variables to ensure the depth of presence necessary to benefit from virtual reality treatments, and (5) it has the potential to increase retention in treatment by monitoring factors that predict drop out and adjusting exposure to minimize their effect. During Phase I eighty phobic and non-phobic participants will be used to build, assess, and validate the artificial intelligence. This is the first application of artificial intelligence to virtual reality treatments for anxiety disorders.

描述（由申请人提供）该项目将开发人工智能，为虚拟现实和基于计算机的焦虑症治疗提供核心功能。人工智能的使用提供了许多优于现有治疗方法的优势：（1）人工 智能提供个性化治疗--使用多个真实的时间生理和主观焦虑反馈回路，其“即时”调整暴露刺激以最大化结果，（2）作为自主系统，其具有在从治疗师引导的干预到最小治疗师接触干预到自我引导治疗的广泛应用中安全使用的潜力，（3）其是适应性的和灵活的，不断学习什么有效，什么不有效，在真实的时间应用这些变化，并存储它们以供以后使用，（4）它可以监控存在水平并调整患者/暴露变量，以确保从虚拟现实治疗中受益所需的存在深度，以及（5）它有可能增加对虚拟现实治疗的保留。 通过监测预测辍学的因素和调整暴露以尽量减少其影响来治疗。在第一阶段，80名恐惧症和非恐惧症的参与者将被用来构建、评估和验证人工智能。这是人工智能首次应用于焦虑症的虚拟现实治疗。