Virtual Environment Exposure Therapy

For over three years I worked as a project manager, sound designer, and programmer in the Virtual Environments Group at Georgia Tech's Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center .

A central research focus of the group is to develop virtual worlds to treat individuals suffering from debilitating psychological phobias.  We tested and developed a number of different environments for treating:
 

• Fear of Flying (The Virtual Airplane)

• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (Virtual Vietnam)

• Fear of Heights (The Virtual Elevator)

Dr. Larry Hodges, Susan Fisher, Dave Gotz, and Jarrell Pair.

I assisted in the group´s COOLVR (Complete Object Oriented Library for Virtual Reality) effort by developing a Windows based spatial (3D) audio engine.
 
• COOLVR audio paper presented at the 1997 International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD)