Cognition meets Assistive Technology: Insights from Load Theory of Selective Attention

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Author(s): Neha Khetrapal (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 13
Source title: Handbook of Research on Human Cognition and Assistive Technology: Design, Accessibility and Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Soonhwa Seok (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA), Edward L. Meyen (University of Kansas, USA)and Boaventura DaCosta (Solers Research Group, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-817-3.ch006

Keywords: Health Information Systems / Medical Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

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This chapter deals with the issue of treating disorders with the help of virtual reality (VR) technology. To this end, it highlights the concept of transdiagnostic processes (like cognitive biases and perceptual processes) that need to be targeted for intervention and are at the risk of becoming atypical across disorders. There have been previous theoretical attempts to explain such common processes, but such theoretical exercises have not been conducted with a rehabilitative focus. Therefore, this chapter urges greater cooperation between researchers and therapists and stresses the intimate links between cognitive and emotional functioning that should be targeted for intervention. This chapter concludes by providing future directions for helping VR to become a popular tool and highlights issues in three different areas: (a) clinical, (b) social and (c) technological. Coordinated research efforts orchestrated in these directions will be beneficial for an understanding of cognitive architecture and rehabilitation alike.

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