Virtual Reality Applied to Psychological Anxiety Tests

Abstract

This document describes the implementation of a prototype that translates into virtual reality experiences, the psychological inventory Mini-Spin, for detecting the social anxiety syndrome. The test subjects answered to the inventory questions both, in the virtual version, using the virtual reality kit and the prototype, and in the traditional pen and paper version. An equivalence Two One-Sided Test was applied to the gathered data, showing significant statistical equivalence for every question.