Congratulations to Dmitry Alexandrovsky, Georg Volkmar, Maximilian Spliethöver, Stefan Finke, Marc Herrlich, Tanja Döring, Jan David Smeddinck, Rainer Malaka for their publication
“Playful User-Generated Treatment: A Novel Game Design Approach for VR Exposure Therapy” at CHIPlay 2020 which received an honorable mention award.
This work investigates a rarely explored area of game design for VR exposure therapy. The authors discuss requirements for playful VR exposure therapy and present a two-step game design approach which employs user-empowerment and creativity.