虚拟现实可以用于对抗肥胖？

Virtual reality offers promising¹ new approaches to assessing and treating people with weight-related disorders², and early applications are revealing valuable information about body image. The advantages of virtual reality (VR) for evaluating body image disturbances³ and the potential to use VR to combat obesity⁴ are discussed in an article that is part of special issue on Virtual Reality and Obesity published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The issue is available free to download on the Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking website until March 23, 2016. Journal Editor-in-Chief Brenda K. Wiederhold, PhD, MBA, BCB, BCN, Interactive⁵ Media Institute (San Diego, CA) and Virtual Reality Medical Institute (Brussels, Belgium) and coauthors Giuseppe Riva, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Istituto Auxologico Italiano (Milan, Italy) and José Gutiérrez-Maldonado, University of Barcelona, Spain, describe studies that demonstrate how VR environments can produce responses similar to those seen in the real world in the article "Virtual Reality in the Assessment⁶ and Treatment of Weight-Related Disorders". The authors provide examples in which VR technology is used to determine how people perceive their bodies, to treat body image disturbances, and to improve adherence⁷ to physical activity among obese⁸ individuals.

 

The special issue features a broad range of articles highlighting many aspects of virtual reality and its potential applications. These include: "Using Virtual Pets to Increase Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Children: A Technology-Assisted Social Cognitive⁹ Theory Approach", by Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn et al.; "What Are You Thinking When You Look at Me?" A Pilot Study of the Use of Virtual Reality in Body Image", by Victoria A. Mountford et al.; and "Eating Disorders and Obesity in Virtual Reality: A Comprehensive Research Chart", by Emily Lafond et al.

 

"Many chronic¹⁰ conditions are associated with a dysfunction of the stress system: obesity, metabolic¹¹ syndrome¹², and type 2 diabetes¹³; hypertension; anxiety, depression, and insomnia¹⁴; and pain syndromes¹⁵. I am appreciative¹⁶ to the researchers and clinicians worldwide who are exploring innovative¹⁷ ways to utilize¹⁸ technology to provide more effective assessment and treatment methods to a greater number of individuals," says Dr. Wiederhold, PhD, MBA, BCB, BCN, Interactive Media Institute, San Diego, California and Virtual Reality Medical Institute, Brussels, Belgium.

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