Title :
Automated system on android platform for use in the implementation psychotherapeutic technical EMDR
Author :
Alulema Flores, Darwin Omar ; Pineda-Lopez, Flavio ; Garcia Aucatoma, Edwin Leonardo ; Izquierdo Cordova, Fabian Eduardo
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Electron. Dept., Univ. de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Sangolquí, Ecuador
Abstract :
It has been determined that the sessions with EMDR methodology applied in a digital form, allowing the psychotherapist treating patients with psychological disorders, and whereas there is currently no way to provide the methodology in this way, the next project is focused on the development a prototype that generates visual, auditory and tactile sequences used by this methodology in a manual or automatic way to provide therapy sessions to Psychotherapist. The control software for the prototype was developed on the Android platform to be deployed on mobile devices, allowing the Psychotherapist from your smartphone or tablet to control the type and speed of the sequences in all modules, the kind of sound in the ear module and the duration of the vibration on the tactile module. Additional software includes a database to record patient data. The interaction of the user that uses Android device psychotherapist and the patient is given by an IOIO board and a hardware adapted for the purpose. Psychotherapists who used the EMDR system showed a reduction in treatment times of 20-30 minutes per session. Psychotherapists reported that physical fatigue was reduced by a margin of 90 percent and mental fatigue by 75 percent in the traditional way of providing EMDR patients, allowing more consecutive sessions provide the same quality of treatment initiation to the end of his workday.
Keywords :
computer software; hearing; medical computing; medical disorders; notebook computers; patient treatment; psychology; smart phones; vision; IOIO board; android device psychotherapist; android platform; auditory sequences; automated system; control software; ear module; implementation psychotherapeutic technical EMDR methodology; mental fatigue; mobile devices; patient data; psychological disorders; psychotherapist treating patients; smartphone; tablet; tactile module; tactile sequences; therapy sessions; time 20 min to 30 min; visual sequences; Androids; Humanoid robots; Manuals; Medical treatment; Software; Transistors; Visualization; ANDROID; EMDR; IOIO; Psychotherapy;
Conference_Titel :
Image, Signal Processing and Artificial Vision (STSIVA), 2014 XIX Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Armenia
DOI :
10.1109/STSIVA.2014.7010124