International Journal on Disability and Human Development

 

Special issue on advances in virtual reality therapy and rehabilitation

Edited by Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Tony Brooks, Paul M Sharkey and Joav Merrick

 

Volume 5(3), July-September 2006

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

Advances in virtual reality therapy and rehabilitation

Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Tony Brooks, Paul M Sharkey and Joav Merrick ...........203-204

REVIEW ARTICLES

Technological challenges in  the Delft virtual reality exposure therapy system

Charles van der Mast ..............205-210

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Evaluation of virtual reality therapy in augmenting the physical and cognitive rehabilitation of war veterans

Brenda K Wiederhold and Mark D Wiederhold ............... 211-215

Analyzing navigation of mentally impaired children in virtual environments

Cecília Sik Lányi, Rita Mátrai and István Tarjányi .................217-221

Tongue-computer interface for disabled people

Lotte NS Andreasen Struijk .................223-226

Investigating the efficacy of a virtual mirror box in treating phantom limb pain in a sample of chronic sufferers

Craig D Murray, Emma Patchick, Stephen Pettifer, Toby Howard, Fabrice Caillette, Jai Kulkarni, and Candy Bamford ................227-234

Audio-based mobilization and orientation of users with visual disabilities through subway networks

Jaime Sánchez and Mauricio Sáenz .................235-242

Virtual reality as a therapeutic tool in the confines of social anxiety disorder treatment

Helena Grillon, Françoise Riquier, Bruno Herbelin and Daniel Thalmann ..................243-250

Do we need high-scale flexibility in virtual therapies?

Cecília Sik Lányi, Jacqueline Ann Stark, Moremi Edit Kamson and Zoltán Geiszt .................251-256

Tangible user interfaces: Tools to examine, assess, and treat dynamic constructional processes in children with developmental coordination disorders

Sigal Jacoby, Naomi Josman, Doron Jacoby, Minori Koike, Yuichi Itoh, Norifumi Kawai, Yoshifumi

Kitamura, Ehud Sharlin  and Patrice L (Tamar) Weiss .................257-263

TheraGame: A home based virtual reality rehabilitation system

Rachel Kizony, Patrice L (Tamar) Weiss, Meir Shahar and Debbie Rand ....................265-269

SMART project: Application of emerging information and communication technology to home-based rehabilitation for stroke patients

Huiru Zheng, Richard Davies, Huiyu Zhou, Jackie Hammerton, Sue J Mawson, Patricia.M Ware,

Norman D Black, Chris Eccleston, Housheng Hu, Tom Stone, Gail A Mountain and Nigel D Harris ........271-276

Tactile information transmission by apparent movement phenomenon using shape-memory alloy device

Yosuke Mizukami  and Hideyuki Sawada ..............277-284

Exploratory strategies and procedures to obtain non-visual overviews using TableVis

Johan Kildal and Stephen A Brewster ....................285-294

Perceptive three dimensional interface via stereo observation

David Padbury, Rachel McCrindle and Hong Wei ....................295-301

TRENDS AND MILESTONES

National survey 1999 on medical services for persons with intellectual disability in residential care in Israel

Joav Merrick ...............303-308