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Helena Stephanie Grillon Le Gallennec

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Virtual Reality (VR) has nowadays become a very useful tool for therapists in the treatment of phobias. Indeed, it allows the simulation of scenarios which are difficult to reproduce in real life. It also allows for a situation to be repeated as much as on ...

EPFL2009

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The purpose of this paper is to identify the problems to solve in order to simulate real-time crowds in a Virtual Environment. We try to classify these problems and study how they have been addressed until now by the research community and our Lab in parti ...

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Gaze Behaviors for Virtual Crowd Characters

Daniel Thalmann, Jonathan Maim, Helena Stephanie Grillon Le Gallennec, Barbara Yersin

Nowadays, crowds of virtual characters are used in many domains such as neurosciences, psychology, and computer sciences. Since as human beings, we are natural experts in human being representation and movement, it makes it that much harder to correctly mo ...

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Simulating gaze attention behaviors for crowds

Daniel Thalmann, Helena Stephanie Grillon Le Gallennec

Crowd animation is a topic of high interest which offers many challenges. One of the most important is the trade-off between rich, realistic behaviors, and computational costs. To this end, much effort has been put into creating variety in character repres ...

Wiley-Blackwell2009

Eye Contact as Trigger for Modification of Virtual Character Behavior

Daniel Thalmann, Helena Stephanie Grillon Le Gallennec

The increasing use of Virtual Reality in the treatment of phobias translates in a just as expanding need for realism in its scenes and characters. Virtual characters need to seem gifted with intelligence. A first step in achieving this is by giving them th ...

2008

Coding gaze tracking data with chromatic gradients for VR exposure therapy

Daniel Thalmann, Bruno Herbelin, Pablo Stanislaw De Heras Ciechomski, Helena Stephanie Grillon Le Gallennec

This article presents a simple and intuitive way to represent the eye-tracking data gathered during immersive virtual reality exposure therapy sessions. Eye-tracking technology can be used to observe gaze avoidance behaviors to provide cognitive and behavi ...

2007

In this study, we evaluate the usability of an eyetracking system as a diagnosis and assessment tool for visual avoidance behaviors in the context of social anxiety disorders. We conducted this study over five social phobic patients and five non phobic peo ...

2007

Crowds of Moving Objects: Navigation Planning and Simulation

Daniel Thalmann, Helena Stephanie Grillon Le Gallennec

This paper presents a solution to interactive navigation planning and real-time simulation of a very large number of entities moving in a virtual environment. From the environment geometry analysis, we deduce a structure called navigation graph, which is t ...

2007

Virtual Reality as Therapeutic Tool in the Confines of Social Anxiety Disorder Treatment

Daniel Thalmann, Bruno Herbelin, Helena Stephanie Grillon Le Gallennec

In this paper, we present a study, conducted over 8 social phobic subjects, whose aim is to evaluate the efficiency and flexibility of virtual reality as a therapeutic tool in the confines of a social phobia behavioural therapeutic program. Our research pr ...

2006

Use of Virtual Reality as Therapeutic Tool for Behavioral Exposure in the Ambit of Social Anxiety Disorder Treatment.

Daniel Thalmann, Bruno Herbelin, Helena Stephanie Grillon Le Gallennec

We hereby present a study whose aim is to evaluate the efficiency and flexibility of virtual reality as a therapeutic tool in the confines of a social phobia behavioural therapeutic program. Our research protocol, accepted by the ethical commission of the ...

2006