4 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…