Abstract
As new technologies emerge, there is an increase in the potential factors that could trigger photosensitive epilepsy. Virtual Reality (VR) contents and video games can potentially cause a response known as photoparoxysmal response, which is a well recognized phenomenon that can be diagnosed using intermittent photic stimulation (IPS). In this paper, we propose to investigate the potential risk of virtual reality in relation to photosensitivity and we introduce VR-Photosense, a virtual reality IPS software that uses different types of visual stimuli to study abnormal electroencephalogram responses in photosensitive patients, which will enable to study the impact of visually-sensitive VR stimuli in the human brain.
This research has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under project MINECO-TIN2017-84804-R, PID2020-112726RB-I00 and from the State Research Agency (AEI, Spain) under grant agreement No RED2018-102312-T (IA-Biomed). Additionally, by the Council of Gijón through the University Institute of Industrial Technology of Asturias grant SV-21-GIJON-1-19.
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Martín, S., Álvarez, V., García-López, B., González, V.M., Villar, J.R. (2022). VR-Photosense: A Virtual Reality Photic Stimulation Interface for the Study of Photosensitivity. In: Sanjurjo González, H., Pastor López, I., García Bringas, P., Quintián, H., Corchado, E. (eds) 16th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications (SOCO 2021). SOCO 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1401. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87869-6_17
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