Development and verification of Immersive contents to alleviate mental illness: Focusing on mild depressive disorder

Abstract

Depressive disorder is one of the most common diseases that lower the quality of life. Early treatment and intervention for patients with a depressive disorder are very important, and treatments include drug therapy and psychotherapy. We intend to achieve emotional control and short-term emotional stability in patients with the mild depressive disorder by creating a psychological stability treatment space using immersion factors. We tried to increase immersion further and maximize the stability effect by selecting and producing spaces considering the color sense. For the produced immersive content, the sense of presence was measured using ITQ and PQ to evaluate the completeness of the content. In future studies, we plan to recruit patient groups and conduct verification experiments using QIDS-SR to verify the validity of the produced content.