Emotional Management and Virtual Reality: an experimental research

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Event Abstract Back to Event Emotional Management and Virtual Reality: an experimental research Daniela Villani1* and G. Riva1, 2 1 Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Interactive Communicaztion and Ergonomics of New Technologies, Italy 2 Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology, Italy In recent years the topic of emotion regulation has garnered significant interest across a variety of fields in the behavioral sciences. According to Murphy, (Murphy, 1996), we consider that a combination of emotional management techniques can produce more significant outcomes than did single-strategy programs and we decided to improve emotional management from different points of view: the Emotion Focused Therapy, the Behavioral Therapy (in particular Relaxation) and the Rational Emotive Therapy. We integrated these strategies in an emotional management protocol and we decided to use two different media (Video and Audio) to support the Relaxation process. To verify the efficacy of the Protocol we carried out a controlled trial. According to Freeman and colleagues categorization, we fixed the “media content” and we manipulated the “media form” dimension. The assessment to identify the affective state and the sense of presence of the participants combined several questionnaires and physiological parameters. The results obtained are very encouraging: the protocol supported by mediated experiences appears to be effective and we can state that a relation exists between presence and treatment outcomes. Conference: Annual CyberTherapy and CyberPsychology 2009 conference, Villa Caramora, Italy, 21 Jun - 23 Jun, 2009. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: Abstracts Citation: Villani D and Riva G (2009). Emotional Management and Virtual Reality: an experimental research. Front. Neuroeng. Conference Abstract: Annual CyberTherapy and CyberPsychology 2009 conference. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.14.2009.06.098 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 23 Mar 2009; Published Online: 23 Mar 2009. * Correspondence: Daniela Villani, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Interactive Communicaztion and Ergonomics of New Technologies, Milan, Italy, daniela.villani@inwind.it Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Daniela Villani G. Riva Google Daniela Villani G. Riva Google Scholar Daniela Villani G. Riva PubMed Daniela Villani G. Riva Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.