TITLE:
Phobia Treatment with Face-Your-Fear VR App
AUTHORS:
Samia Loucif, Joao Negreiros, Batoul Haj Stifi, Rahma Omar Abdel Rahman, Sara Iqbal
KEYWORDS:
Phobia, Technology, Virtual Reality, Android App, Face-Your-Fear (FyF)
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Computer and Communications,
Vol.9 No.10,
October
11,
2021
ABSTRACT: Technology plays an important role in people’s daily life, for they depend on it to perform many tasks. Among the prominent technologies are smartphones and Virtual Reality (VR). Developing mobile apps and integrating VR technology allow users to experience an artificial environment as if it is real such as the simulation of phobias. This research paper proposes a mobile application named Face-Your-Fear (FyF) integrating VR to help any user to live a cybernetic experience, overcome the illness, know about phobia symptoms, and get extra information on two types of phobia: aquaphobia and achluophobia. Its architecture, features, development, interfaces and limitations are presented, including the main results of the qualitative survey to users.