What role can avatars play in e-mental health interventions? Exploring new models of client-therapist interaction.

What role can avatars play in e-mental health interventions? Exploring new models of client-therapist interaction.

In the burgeoning field of e-mental health interventions, avatars are increasingly being utilized to facilitate online communication between clients and therapists, and amongst peers. Avatars are digital self-representations which enable individuals to interact with each other in computer-based virt...

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Main Authors: Imogen C Rehm, Emily Foenander, Klaire Wallace, Jo-Anne M Abbott, Michael Kyrios, Neil Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
Subjects:
virtual reality
Computer Mediated Communication
Avatars
virtual environments
e-mental health
Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00186/full

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