Avatar Assisted Therapy 2013. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” “If I had asked my customers what they wanted, the
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
magic. If I had asked my customers what they wanted, the would have
said faster horses. "A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous
and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what
everybody knows.
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Pay Attention! 2008 Facebook Users 130 million Tweets per month
170,000 Monthly Smartphone Use 4.5 hours
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20082012 Facebook Users 130 million 900 million+ Tweets per
month 170,0004.2 billion. Monthly Smartphone Use 4.5 hours90 hours
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Emerging Technology ACHESS NIATx Support Teams Online Group
Discussions Panic Button High Risk Location Alert Ask an Expert
Meeting Locations
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Emerging Technology iHeal Wristband and Mobile App
UMass-Worcester/MIT +
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Emerging Technology Web-based Collaboration e.g., eGetGoing,
Valley Hopes AC/ESS
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Virtual World Counseling Platform A persistent, computer based,
simulated 3-D environment in which real people, using avatars, are
able to interact in meaningful ways with each other and the virtual
environment.
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Avatars, Simply Defined Avatar: A computerized figure which
represents you in a virtual space, and allows you to meet and
interact synchronously with others who are in the same space.
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Early Avatars
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Avatars, v. 2.0
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Commercial Virtual Worlds
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Virtual World Conferencing
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Avatar Assisted Therapy
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Interactivity Immersive Interactive Static TextBasic Web
UIRich, Interactive 3D-Digital ? OnlyGraphical UIExperience
Richness of User Experience Pre-Web Internet World Wide Web Web 2.0
Web 3D Web XD Immersiveness + Interactivity = Engagement
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Avatar Assisted Therapy The computer and the internet itself
become a tool a tool that disappears the more you become
comfortable with it!
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The Big Idea - Revisited
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Avatar Assisted Therapy Advanced Telemedicine 1. Immersive
engagement at a level well beyond "talking heads" or audio only 2.
24/7 availability with educational and support opportunities. 3.
Far more access points than with traditional telemedicine 4.
Inexpensive creation of imaginative, appealing environments 4a.
Environmental modifications on the fly 5. Middleware applications
allows tracking and interaction (management level) with the virtual
experience 6. Avatar choice/modification creates therapeutic
opportunities 7. Private direction of group dynamics via 1:1 chat
function 8. Avatar aliases and audio modification supports high
level identity protection and anonymity
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Avatar Assisted Therapy But, Does it Work? 90% Program
Completion Rates 2.4 x Activity Engagement
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Avatar Assisted Therapy But, Does it Work? 90% Program
Completion Rates 2.4 x Activity Engagement Easier to Talk About
Difficult Issues
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Avatar Assisted Therapy Therapeutic and Practical Uses of
Virtual Worlds Individual and Group Counseling Role Play Family
Counseling Staff Training Virtual Conferencing Job Interviews
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Avatar Assisted Therapy Ongoing Considerations: Funding
Licensure Technology Skills and Abilities Availability of
Assistance
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Avatar Assisted Therapy "It is not necessary to imagine the
world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one
is paper work, and the other is nostalgia."
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Avatar Assisted Therapy For More Information: Dick Dillon
[email protected] 314-504-6672
