Clemente Bellido, Miriam; Rey Solaz, Beatriz; Rodríguez Pujadas, Aina; Breton Lopez, Juani; Barros Loscertales, Alfonso; Baños, Rosa María; Botella, Cristina; Alcañiz Raya, Mariano Luis; Ávila, César(JMIR Publications, 2014-06)
[EN] Background: To date, still images or videos of real animals have been used in functional magnetic resonance imaging protocols to evaluate the brain activations associated with small animals phobia.
Objective: The ...
[EN] This study presents Catch Me game, a therapeutic game for teaching patients how to confront to their feared animals during spider and cockroach phobia treatment, and evaluates whether inclusion of gaming elements into ...
ETCHEMENDY, ERNESTINA; Baños, Rosa M.; Botella, Cristina; Castilla López, Diana Virginia; Alcañiz Raya, Mariano Luis; Rasal, P.; Farfallini, L.(Elsevier, 2011-01)
[EN] The Butler system is an e-health platform designed to improve the elderly population's quality of life. The Butler system has three applications diagnostic, therapeutic and playful. The objective of this work is to ...
Clemente Bellido, Miriam; Rey, Beatriz; Rodríguez Pujadas, Aina; Barros Loscertales, Alfonso; Baños, Rosa M.; Botella, Cristina; Alcañiz Raya, Mariano Luis; Ávila, César(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014-05)
[EN] In the field of virtual reality (VR), many efforts have been made to analyze presence, the sense of being in the virtual world. However, it is only recently that functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been ...
Guixeres Provinciale, Jaime; Saiz Rodríguez, Francisco Javier; Alcañiz Raya, Mariano Luis; Cebolla, Ausias; Escobar, Patricia; Banos, Rosa; Botella, Cristina; Lison, Juan Francisco; Alvarez, Julio; Cantero, Laura; Lurbe, Empar(Graz University of Technology, Institut für Informationssysteme und Computer Medien (IICM)Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 2013)
Virtual Reality (VR) could be an interesting tool to combat obesity and sedentariness in children. During the last years a multidisciplinary research team comprised of engineers, psychologists, physiotherapists and ...
Baños, Rosa M.; Cebolla, Ausias; Zaragozá, Irene; Botella, Cristina; Alcañiz Raya, Mariano Luis(VIRTUAL REALITY MEDICAL INSTITUTE, 2009)
[EN] Childhood obesity is a significant health problem in western societies. Self-monitoring techniques, such as the use of dietary and physical activity registers, are considered to be central to cognitive-behavioral ...
Wrzesien, Maja; Burkhardt, Jean-Marie; Botella, Cristina; Alcañiz Raya, Mariano Luis(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2012-11)
[EN] A growing number of empirical studies evaluate the influence of Mental Health (MH) technology on the clinical effectiveness, the therapeutic relationship (i.e.; therapeutic alliance), and usability issues. However, ...
Wrzesien, Maja; Bretón-López, Juana; Botella, Cristina; Burkhardt, Jean-Marie; Alcañiz Raya, Mariano Luis; Pérez-Ara, María Ángeles; Riera del Amo, Antonio(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2013-07)
New technologies have slowly become a part of psychologists’ therapeutic
office. However, many therapists still have doubts about the possibility of creating a good therapeutic relationship with patients in the presence ...
Baños, Rosa M.; Escobar, Patricia; Cebolla, Ausias; Guixeres Provinciale, Jaime; Alvarez Pitti, Julio; Lisón, Juan Francisco; Botella, Cristina(Mary Ann Liebert, 2016-02-01)
This study analyzes the potential of virtual reality (VR) to enhance attentional distraction in overweight children as they experience bodily sensations during exercise. It has been suggested that one reason why obese ...