Augmenting Shared Spaces in Psychotherapy Contexts

The ongoing growing of computational power of small portable devices allow the emergence of new forms of Augmented Realities, such as, virtual shared spaces. In this work, we will explore the use of this technology to improve the collaborative work between people in the same physical space or in remote locations sharing virtual contents. The idea is to have a scene shared between several people where everyone can see and interact with it. Those live interactions can improve the quality of collaborative work by presenting in real time ideas and thoughts of any participant directly on top of the 3D model. Our main goal is to apply this concept to psychological therapies, specially to exposure therapies, where it is very important for the therapist to control and manipulate the scene that the patient is exposed to in order to obtain the desired results.