Cel Social anxiety disorder (SAD) – the most common type of anxiety disorders – has severe emotional, financial and social consequences for patients, their families and their social network. Affecting about 7% of Europeans at some point in their life, SAD produces substantial societal cost due to long lasting treatments and extensive periods of reduced working capacity. To address this important problem, the project will establish an innovative system for treating SAD by exploiting the proven therapeutic potential of advanced Virtual Reality (VR) technology.SAD is predominantly treated with cognitive behavioural therapy, in which patients are repeatedly exposed to fear-provoking, social situations. However, patients often have to wait very long before treatment becomes available, exposure is rarely applied with the necessary intensity due to resource limitations, and objective measurement of treatment efficacy and dynamic adjustment of therapeutic scenarios is hardly possible. These problems can be overcome with VR based, controlled exposure to virtual renditions of fear provoking situations, which has been shown to surpass traditional therapies in terms of treatment efficacy, patient acceptance, and economic efficiency.Given that advanced VR technology has become very affordable, a widespread application of VR for the treatment of SAD is now within reach. The proposed project will fuse the applicant’s extensive VR expertise with established principles for VR based therapy to create an innovative system for the treatment of SAD. This system will, for the first time, combine interactive 3D environments with external physiological measures (e.g eye tracking data) and real-time data analyses techniques to provide a precise, flexible and time and cost-efficient therapeutic approach. Established collaborations with clinical partners will allow for continuous testing and refinement of the system, thus ensuring that market readiness can be achieved within the funding period. Dziedzina nauki natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencenatural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationsvirtual realitymedical and health sciencesclinical medicinepsychiatryanxiety disorders Słowa kluczowe virtual reality exposure therapy anxiety disorders software development physiological markers Program(-y) H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Temat(-y) ERC-2017-PoC - ERC-Proof of Concept Zaproszenie do składania wniosków ERC-2017-PoC Zobacz inne projekty w ramach tego zaproszenia System finansowania ERC-POC - Proof of Concept Grant Instytucja przyjmująca DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR NEURODEGENERATIVE ERKRANKUNGEN EV Wkład UE netto € 148 403,00 Adres VENUSBERG-CAMPUS 1/99 53127 Bonn Niemcy Zobacz na mapie Region Nordrhein-Westfalen Köln Bonn, Kreisfreie Stadt Rodzaj działalności Research Organisations Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Uczestnictwo w unijnych programach w zakresie badań i innowacji Opens in new window sieć współpracy HORIZON Opens in new window Koszt całkowity € 148 403,00 Beneficjenci (1) Sortuj alfabetycznie Sortuj według wkładu UE netto Rozwiń wszystko Zwiń wszystko DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR NEURODEGENERATIVE ERKRANKUNGEN EV Niemcy Wkład UE netto € 148 403,00 Adres VENUSBERG-CAMPUS 1/99 53127 Bonn Zobacz na mapie Region Nordrhein-Westfalen Köln Bonn, Kreisfreie Stadt Rodzaj działalności Research Organisations Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Uczestnictwo w unijnych programach w zakresie badań i innowacji Opens in new window sieć współpracy HORIZON Opens in new window Koszt całkowity € 148 403,00