Virtual Reality Can Help Treat Sex Offenders 11/14/14

Virtual Reality Can Help Treat Sex Offenders

(Virtual Reality is the computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional image or environment that can be interacted with in a seemingly real or physical way.)

• Virtual reality systems are now being used to help treat and understand the impulses of sex offenders. 
• The researchers record the sex offenders responses to what they are seeing and hearing in the virtual reality world. 
• The headsets track eye movements and record how long the sex offender was looking at the image. 
• They also measured participants sexual arousal through penile plethysmography (PPG), which measures the flow of blood to the penis.
• Participants are shown different images in different environments, with different levels of nudity. 
• This treatment helps us learn more about the behavior of sex offenders and helps use create more ways to treat them. 
• Virtual reality is also used to treat many other illnesses (anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and substance abuse). 
• Virtual reality can cause cybersickness that include the symptoms eye strain, headache, nausea, sweating, disorientation, and vertigo.

(Virtual reality is not the only type of technology being used to help treat and stop sex offenders.)

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