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Influencing the Affective State and Attention Restoration in VR-Supported Psychotherapy

Virtual Reality (VR) has been proposed as an immersive medium in psychotherapy for supporting the treatment of various phobias or behavioral disorders. In classic therapy of mental disorders as well as to reduce stress, various relaxation methods are used. This includes guided imagery, i.e. verbally describing peaceful scenes of nature to the patient. This paper presents a virtual relaxation environment for portable VR systems that has been designed on the basis of theories and research in nature and environmental psychology. The aim of the system is to induce relaxation. We further report on the evaluation of a study design to prepare the system for experiments with patients, measuring relaxation by the change of affective state as well as attention restoration.