Background: Sexual deviance is regarded as an important risk factor for sexual offending. However, little is known about the development of deviant sexual interests. The transfer of arousal between emotions, i.e., excitation transfer, could attribute sexual salience to stimuli that would otherwise not …

While feedback is frequently emphasized as a crucial principle of presentation courses in higher education, previous studies revealed that teachers outperform peers in terms of impact on students’ development of oral presentation competence. Further, presentation research showed that the lack of quality …

Presenting is considered as a core skill for the higher-educated professional (De Grez, 2009). However, many graduated students often fail to show effective presentation behaviors (Chan, 2011) and suffer from presentation anxiety Smith & Sodano, 2011). The development of presentation skills, therefore, …

Chronic itching is a serious and uncomfortable condition. The scratch response might result in a vicious cycle of alternating itching and scratching. To develop psychological interventions for people suffering from chronic itching and to break the vicious itch-scratching-itch cycle, it is important to …

BACKGROUND: Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is the most common chronic pain condition worldwide. Currently, primary care physiotherapy is one of the main treatment options, but effects of this treatment are small. Virtual Reality (VR) could be an adjunct to physiotherapy care, due to its multimodal features. …

Virtual training systems provide highly realistic training environments for police. This study assesses whether a pain stimulus can enhance the training responses and sense of the presence of these systems. Police officers (n = 219) were trained either with or without a pain stimulus in a 2D simulator …

De speculatieve toepassingen van augmented reality in de praktijk. Als het aan de bedrijven als Meta, Niantic en Apple zou liggen, dan wordt dat de toekomst. In het aankomende decennium zal die wissel van smartphone naar smartbril gaan komen. De hoofdmotor van onze brillen zal draaien op artificial intelligence, …

Mirror therapy is used in a broad spectrum of rehabilitation therapy ranging from phantom limb pain, stroke, peripheral nerve injury to cerebral palsy. With the development of a virtual reality (VR) environment for mirror therapy, patients can now practice independently of time and place. However, the …

Inleiding: Virtual reality (VR) wordt binnen de fysiotherapie onderzocht op welke wijze het toepasbaar zou kunnen zijn. VR is effectief gebleken bij een gevarieerd aanbod van pijn- en niet-aangeboren hersenletselpatiënten. De relatie tussen de toepassing van VR en nekklachten is nog niet zorgvuldig onderzocht, …

This project 's objective was to create a hyperreality experience of the tropical storm that hit Borculo in 1925. Previous teams have demonstrated the technical feasibility of this project, but the required level of graphic quality has not yet been attained. To address these problems, research has …