@article{michaliszyn_randomized_2010,

title = {A randomized, controlled clinical trial of in virtuo and in vivo exposure for spider phobia},

author = {D. Michaliszyn and A. Marchand and S. Bouchard and M. -O. Martel and J. Poirier-Bisson},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-78650262716&doi=10.1089%2fcyber.2009.0277&partnerID=40&md5=8efc6b65de8b3477ca3cd0fa8fcab93a},

doi = {10.1089/cyber.2009.0277},

issn = {21522723 (ISSN)},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

journal = {Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking},

volume = {13},

number = {6},

pages = {689–695},

abstract = {The present study compared the efficacy of virtual reality (VR) in virtuo exposure and in vivo exposure in the treatment of spider phobia. Two treatment conditions were compared to a waiting-list condition. A 3-month follow-up evaluation was conducted in order to assess the durability of the treatment effects. Participants were randomly assigned to the treatment groups. A total of 16 participants received the in virtuo treatment, and 16 received the in vivo treatment. The waiting-list condition included 11 participants. Participants received eight 1.5-hour treatment sessions. Efficacy was measured with the Fear of Spiders Questionnaire, the Spider Beliefs Questionnaire (SBQ-F), and a Behavioral Avoidance Test (BAT). In addition, a clinician administered the Structured Interview for DSM-IV to assess DSM-IV's criteria for specific phobia and severity. Clinical and statistically significant improvements were found for both groups. Differences in treatment groups were found on one of five measures of fear: greater improvement on the SBQ-F beliefs subscale was associated with in vivo exposure. Copyright 2010, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.},

keywords = {Adolescent, adult, analysis of variance, animal, Animals, article, behavior therapy, clinical trial, computer interface, Computer Simulation, controlled clinical trial, controlled study, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, female, follow up, Follow-Up Studies, hospitalization, human, Humans, Implosive Therapy, Intention to Treat Analysis, interview, male, methodology, Middle Aged, phobia, Phobic Disorders, psychologic test, Psychological, questionnaire, Questionnaires, randomized controlled trial, Severity of Illness Index, spider, Spiders, treatment outcome, User-Computer Interface},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{renaud_behavioral_2002,

title = {Behavioral avoidance dynamics in the presence of a virtual spider},

author = {P. Renaud and S. Bouchard and R. Proulx},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0036708418&doi=10.1109%2fTITB.2002.802381&partnerID=40&md5=4dd582cb233d8396f7795cf93cb1b984},

doi = {10.1109/TITB.2002.802381},

issn = {10897771 (ISSN)},

year  = {2002},

date = {2002-01-01},

journal = {IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine},

volume = {6},

number = {3 SPEC.},

pages = {235–243},

abstract = {Tracking behavior with a virtual spider and a neutral target is compared in fearful and nonfearful subjects. Head-tracking in virtual environments appears to be a scale-free behavior with long-range fractal-like patterns. Moreover, these fractal patterns change according to what the target affords the tracker and the level of behavioral avoidance manifested by the subjects. Results are interpreted in terms of ecological psychology and nonlinear dynamics, and implications for virtual reality (VR) psychology are outlined.},

keywords = {adult, Affordance, animal, Animals, Anxiety, Anxiety disorder, article, Behavioral avoidance, Biomedical engineering, Chronic Disease, clinical trial, Computer Graphics, computer interface, Computer Simulation, controlled clinical trial, controlled study, Environment, Fear, female, Fractal dynamics, Fractals, head movement, Head movements, hospitalization, human, Human computer interaction, Humans, Interactive computer graphics, male, Motion Perception, movement perception, pathophysiology, Patient treatment, phobia, Phobic Disorders, Presence, psychological aspect, Psychomotor Performance, Psychophysiology, reproducibility, Reproducibility of Results, Self Assessment (Psychology), self evaluation, Sensitivity and Specificity, Severity of Illness Index, spider, Spiders, Tracking, treatment outcome, User-Computer Interface, virtual reality},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}