Using AL to Enhance VR Anxiety Disorder Treatment

描述(由申请人提供)这个项目将开发一种人工智能，以提供虚拟现实和基于计算机的焦虑症治疗的核心功能。与现有的治疗方法相比，人工智能的使用提供了许多优势：(1)人工 智能提供个性化治疗--使用多个实时生理和主观焦虑反馈循环，它“在运行中”调整暴露刺激以最大化结果，(2)作为一个自治系统，它具有在从治疗师指导干预到最小治疗师接触干预到自我指导治疗的广泛应用中安全使用的潜力，(3)它是自适应和灵活的，持续学习什么起作用和什么不起作用，实时应用这些变化，并存储它们以供以后使用，(4)它可以监控存在的水平并调整患者/暴露变量，以确保从虚拟现实治疗中获益所需的存在的深度，以及(5)它有可能提高在 通过监测预测退出的因素并调整暴露以将其影响降至最低来进行治疗。在第一阶段，将使用80名恐惧症和非恐惧症参与者来构建、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。

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.