title: Characteristics of social perception assessed in schizophrenia using virtual reality.
abstract: Impairment in social skills is one of the few criteria that all individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia must meet. Successful social skills require the coordination of many abilities, including social perception, which involves the decoding and interpretation of social cues from others. In this study, we examined the potential for virtual reality (VR) in social skill training. We attempted to determine if VR can be used to measure social skills and social perception, and to determine which VR parameters are related to schizophrenic symptoms. Some of these results have clear clinical relevance, while other observations need further study. The VR system appears to be useful in assessing the social perception of schizophrenics and normal people, and could be more widely used in the future for social training and in the assessment of social problem-solving abilities, assertiveness skills, and general social skills.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hanyang University, Sungdong, Seoul 133-605, Korea.
authors.forename: Kwanguk
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jae-Jin
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jaehun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Da-Eun
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Hee Jeong
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Jang
authors.forename: Jeonghun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ku
authors.forename: Chan-Hyung
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: In Young
authors.initials: IY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sun I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018187:Personal Construct Theory; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012919:Social Behavior; D012938:Social Perception; D012951:Socialization; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted; D014584:User-Computer Interface