biggert opened this issue on Apr 02, 2004 ยท 45 posts
aodor posted Wed, 07 April 2004 at 9:57 AM
Wow MoxeyH and sandoppe the treatment of anxiety (in its many forms) can be an other interesting area to research the use of poser and other 3D applications. I'm doing a Masters in Medical Informatics from Oregon Health and Sciences University. I take all the courses online as I live in Mexico City. I attend many Medical Informatics meetings, and let me tell you that one of the fields which makes more use of Virtual Environments is Psychiatry. I'm not a shrink, I'm a surgeon, but for the last 10 years I have only worked in research in any field in which computers are helpful for medicine (any field you can imagine). Telepsychiatry is another very intersting field, in which patients (many of them with anxiety) can get in touch with their therapists by means of internet based teleconferencing or other similar ways. The treatment of diverse phobias (aracnophobia, agoraphobia, acrophobia, fear of flying, social phobia, etc.) have all been succesfully treated with Virtual Reality. What I'm trying to do now is to use Vue, Poser and other programs to create the most realistic visrtual environments and virtual actors for such treatments.