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most citedSpiders Based on Anxiety: How Reinforcement Learning Can Deliver Desired User Experience in Virtual Reality Personalized Arachnophobia Treatment

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cs.LG2025

Personalizing Exposure Therapy via Reinforcement Learning

Athar Mahmoudi-Nejad, Matthew Guzdial, Pierre Boulanger

Personalized therapy, in which a therapeutic practice is adapted to an individual patient, can lead to improved health outcomes. Typically, this is accomplished by relying on a the…

cs.HC2024

Label-Free Subjective Player Experience Modelling via Let's Play Videos

Dave Goel, Athar Mahmoudi-Nejad, Matthew Guzdial

Player Experience Modelling (PEM) is the study of AI techniques applied to modelling a player's experience within a video game. PEM development can be labour-intensive, requiring e…

cs.LG2024

Stress Detection from Photoplethysmography in a Virtual Reality Environment

Athar Mahmoudi-Nejad, Pierre Boulanger, Matthew Guzdial

Personalized virtual reality exposure therapy is a therapeutic practice that can adapt to an individual patient, leading to better health outcomes. Measuring a patient's mental sta…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Spiders Based on Anxiety: How Reinforcement Learning Can Deliver Desired User Experience in Virtual Reality Personalized Arachnophobia Treatment

Athar Mahmoudi-Nejad, Matthew Guzdial, Pierre Boulanger

The need to generate a spider to provoke a desired anxiety response arises in the context of personalized virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET), a treatment approach for arachnop…

cs.LG2021

Arachnophobia Exposure Therapy using Experience-driven Procedural Content Generation via Reinforcement Learning (EDPCGRL)

Athar Mahmoudi-Nejad, Matthew Guzdial, Pierre Boulanger

Personalized therapy, in which a therapeutic practice is adapted to an individual patient, leads to better health outcomes. Typically, this is accomplished by relying on a therapis…