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The subjective response of people living with HIV to illness narratives in VR
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-101).
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2014
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| author | Hamza, Sabeeha |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/6400 The subjective response of people living with HIV to illness narratives in VR Hamza, Sabeeha Blake, Edwin H Coetzee, Mignon Computer Science Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-101). This dissertation reports on the results on an exploratory investigation into the potential efficacy of VR as both a support mechanism to people living with HIV I AIDS, as well its capabilities as an emotive medium. Two hypothesis were presented viz. (1) VR will be a form of social support and (2) VR will have an emotional impact on participants. The research builds up on findings which demonstrate the therapeutic effectiveness of telling personal and collective narratives in an HIV I AIDS support group. This fact, together with the tested ability ofVR as a therapeutic medium, let to the development of a virtual support group with an aim to test its therapeutic efficacy. A low cost, deployable desktop PC based system using custom software was developed. The system implemented a VR walkthrough experience of a tranquil campfire in a forest. 2014-08-13T19:29:07Z 2014-08-13T19:29:07Z 2004 Master Thesis Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6400 eng application/pdf Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Computer Science Hamza, Sabeeha The subjective response of people living with HIV to illness narratives in VR |
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| title | The subjective response of people living with HIV to illness narratives in VR |
| title_full | The subjective response of people living with HIV to illness narratives in VR |
| title_fullStr | The subjective response of people living with HIV to illness narratives in VR |
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| title_short | The subjective response of people living with HIV to illness narratives in VR |
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| topic | Computer Science |
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