Table of Contents

• Cover
• Abstract
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• List of Figures

1. Introduction
   1. What is Virtual Reality
   2. Graphics Visualization & Usability Center
   3. Presence and Virtual Reality
   4. Following chapters
2. Virtual Reality
   1. Terms used in Virtual Reality
   2. History of Virtual Reality
   3. Virtual Environments group
   4. Simple Virtual Environment library
3. What is presence?
   1. Previous work
      1. Thomas B. Sheridan
      2. David Zeltzer
      3. Alaric Naiman
      4. Carrie Heeter
      5. Richard M. Held and Nathaniel I. Durlach
      6. Gary Fontaine
      7. Gerda J.F. Smets et al
      8. Lessons learned from previous work
   2. Questions
   3. Conclusions
4. Choosing a phobia
   1. Anxiety disorders
      1. Panic disorder with or without agoraphobia
      2. Agoraphobia without panic disorder
      3. Social phobia
      4. Simple phobia
      5. Obsessive compulsive disorder
   2. What phobia to use
5. Treatment and environments
   1. Development of a phobia
   2. Treatment based on behavioral theory
      1. Systematic desensitization
      2. Graded exposure
      3. Flooding and implosion
      4. Participant modelling
      5. Assertiveness and social skill training
      6. Aversion therapy / positive reinforcement
   3. Choosing a treatment
   4. Development of environments
   5. Requirements
6. Designing environments
   1. Designing first environment
      1. Conceptual design
      2. Semantical design
      3. Syntactical design
      4. Lexical design
   2. The hardware used
   3. Prototyping the first environment
   4. A three button user interface
   5. Evaluating first environment
      1. Changes to semantical design
      2. Changes to syntactical design
      3. Height clues
      4. General clues
   6. Second environmen
   7. Third environment
   8. Final environments
7. The acrophobia experiments
   1. Setup used for experiments
   2. Group experiment
      1. Experiment
      2. Results
   3. Case study
      1. Experiment
      2. Results
   4. Conclusions
8. Conclusions
   1. SVE library
   2. Requirements
   3. Treatment
   4. Presence
   5. Future research

• References
• Questionnaires
• Publications

Rob Kooper

kooper@cc.gatech.edu