Augmented Reality in Psychology

Abstract

Psychology is a field in which Virtual Reality has already successfully been applied. Augmented Reality (AR) has started to be applied as a new technol- ogy. In this paper, we introduce several AR works for being used in psychology. We also present a study of an AR system for the treatment of acrophobia using immersive photography in which participated expert computer science engineers. From the results and related to the sense of presence, all statistical tests applied showed significant differences between the two environments (real and AR) for all measures. The order of the visit did not influence the users’ scores on presence. Comparing the sense of presence experienced by the expert group and a non-expert group, it is possible to observe that there is not significant difference in the sense of presence between both groups. 1