Abstract
Interreality is a personalized immersive e-therapy whose main novelty is a hybrid, closed-loop empowering experience bridging physical and virtual worlds. The main feature of interreality is a twofold link between the virtual and the real world: (a) behavior in the physical world influences the experience in the virtual one; (b) behavior in the virtual world influences the experience in the real one. This is achieved through: (1) 3D Shared Virtual Worlds: role-playing experiences in which one or more users interact with one another within a 3D world; (2) Bio and Activity Sensors (From the Real to the Virtual World): They are used to track the emotional/health/activity status of the user and to influence his/her experience in the virtual world (aspect, activity and access); (3) Mobile Internet Appliances (From the Virtual to the Real One): In interreality, the social and individual user activity in the virtual world has a direct link with the users' life through a mobile phone/digital assistant. The different technologies that are involved in the interreality vision and its clinical rationale are addressed and discussed.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Studies in Health Technology and Informatics |
Pages | 3-7 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Volume | 144 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Keywords
- Biosensors
- Interreality
- Mobile internet appliances
- Virtual reality
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biomedical Engineering
- Health Informatics
- Health Information Management