3 papers
cs.LG2025
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.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.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…