Motion simulator for psychological investigations

虚拟现实(VR)技术可以成功地科学地研究人类的行为和体验。VR在治疗焦虑症等方面的应用得到了科学证明。到目前为止，受控自我运动的模拟只在有限的程度上实现，因为运动模拟器是必要的。使用该设备，我们将能够将自我运动集成到虚拟多模式模拟(VR)中，同时除了自我报告外，还可以记录行为和生理以及神经元反应。因此，临床心理学和心理治疗中出现的问题，如焦虑的基本过程和焦虑症心理治疗中的作用机制(如对飞行的恐惧，车祸后的创伤后应激障碍)，以及一般和生物心理学的基本问题，如包括自我运动在内的多模式感知过程，可以使用创新的和生态上有效的范式来研究。

Human behaviour and experience can be successfully investigated scientifically in Virtual Reality (VR). The application of VR for the therapy of e.g. anxiety disorders is scientifically proven. The simulation of controlled self motion has so far only been realized to a limited extent, since motion simulators are necessary for this. With the applied for device, we will be able to integrate self motion in virtual multimodal simulations (VR) and at the same time to record behaviour and physiological as well as neuronal reactions in addition to self-reports. Thus, issues arising in clinical psychology and psychotherapy such as fundamental processes of anxiety and mechanisms of action in the psychotherapy of anxiety disorders (e.g. fear of flying, PTSD after car accidents) as well as fundamental questions of general and biological psychology such as multimodal perceptual processes including self-motion can be investigated using innovative and ecologically valid paradigms.