Virtual Reality Music Intervention to Reduce Social Anxiety in Adolescents Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Ali Adjorlu; Nathaly Belen Betancourt Barriga; Stefania Serafin

doi:10.5281/zenodo.3249339

Virtual Reality Music Intervention to Reduce Social Anxiety in Adolescents Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Ali Adjorlu, Nathaly Belen Betancourt Barriga, Stefania Serafin

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Abstract

This project investigates the potentials of Head-MountedDisplay (HMD) based Virtual Reality (VR) that incorporates musical elements as a tool to perform exposure therapy. This is designed to help adolescents diagnosed with
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to deal with their social
anxiety. An application was developed that combines the
possibility of singing in VR while a virtual audience provides feedback. A pilot test was conducted on four adolescents diagnosed with ASD from a school for adolescents
with special needs in Denmark. All four participants had
shown signs of social anxiety according to their teachers.
The initial results from this pilot study indicate that despite the participants’ were capable of singing in front of
the virtual audience without reporting a major level of social anxiety

Original language	English
Title of host publication	16th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC2019)
Number of pages	7
Publisher	Sound and Music Computing Network
Publication date	2019
Pages	261-268
ISBN (Print)	978-84-09-08518-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3249339
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	16th Sound and music computing conference - University of Malaga (UMA). , Malaga, Spain Duration: 28 May 2019 → 31 May 2019 http://smc2019.uma.es/index.html

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Conference	16th Sound and music computing conference
Location	University of Malaga (UMA).
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Malaga
Period	28/05/2019 → 31/05/2019
Internet address	http://smc2019.uma.es/index.html

Series	Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference
ISSN	2518-3672

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Adjorlu, A, Betancourt Barriga, NB & Serafin, S 2019, Virtual Reality Music Intervention to Reduce Social Anxiety in Adolescents Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. in 16th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC2019). Sound and Music Computing Network, Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference, pp. 261-268, 16th Sound and music computing conference, Malaga, Spain, 28/05/2019. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3249339

Virtual Reality Music Intervention to Reduce Social Anxiety in Adolescents Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. / Adjorlu, Ali; Betancourt Barriga, Nathaly Belen; Serafin, Stefania.
16th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC2019). Sound and Music Computing Network, 2019. p. 261-268 (Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference).

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