University of Basel researchers fight fear of spiders with AR
मुझे क्या जानने की ज़रूरत है? से शोधकर्ताओं बेसल विश्वविद्यालय have developed an augmented reality (AR) app for smartphones to help people reduce their fear of spiders. The app has already shown itself to be effective in a clinical trial, with subjects experiencing less fear of real spiders after completing just a few training units with the app at home.
मकड़ियाँ क्यों? According to the University of Basel, a fear of spiders is one of the most common phobias and leads to a variety of limitations in everyday life, as those affected seek to avoid situations involving spiders. Also, an effective although rarely used treatment is exposure therapy, where patients are guided through therapeutic exposure to the situations they fear in order to gradually break down their phobia. So arachnophobia is both common and debilitating enough to warrant investigation, with little understood about the proposed treatment.