Redesign Me: Virtual Reality Experience of the Line of Life and Its Connection to a Healthier Self
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Serious Applications of VR
1.2. VR for Training or Treatment
2. Philosophical Background: The Self-Narrative Concept and the Line of Life
2.1. Reexperience and Recreation of the Line of Life
2.2. Self-Narrative and Line of Life
2.3. The VR Experience for Rearranging the Life Narrative
2.4. Psychological Trauma as a Break in the Narrative Line
3. Proposal for Solving the Problem with the Line of Life
3.1. Addressing the Break in the Narrative Line
3.2. Detaching from the Self
4. Effects of the Resolution on the Line of Life and Proposal for Treatment Design
4.1. Authoring the Experience of Line of Life in VR
4.2. Designing VR Experience to Create New Meaning and Explanation
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- design an experience of reliving/retelling one’s line of life,
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- change the point of view about certain events to gain a healthier perspective of them,
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- perform cognitive restructuring of certain events that lead to a healthier and more positive viewpoint,
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- create personalized interpretations of certain events from the life narrative,
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- achieve authoring and gain control over their life story,
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- redesign the line of life to promote a healthier self.
5. Final Remarks
6. Ethics Statement
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Georgieva I, Georgiev GV. Redesign Me: Virtual Reality Experience of the Line of Life and Its Connection to a Healthier Self. Behavioral Sciences. 2019; 9(11):111. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs9110111
Chicago/Turabian StyleGeorgieva, Iva, and Georgi V. Georgiev. 2019. "Redesign Me: Virtual Reality Experience of the Line of Life and Its Connection to a Healthier Self" Behavioral Sciences 9, no. 11: 111. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs9110111
APA StyleGeorgieva, I., & Georgiev, G. V. (2019). Redesign Me: Virtual Reality Experience of the Line of Life and Its Connection to a Healthier Self. Behavioral Sciences, 9(11), 111. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs9110111