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| The explanation about virtual reality technology and its benefits in psychology. (Foto: Istimewa) |
Technology is inseparable from human’s life. Various technology-based methods facilitate humans to do their activities, including in patient therapy, as developed by the psychology department of the University of Muhammadiyah Malang: virtual reality-based therapy. The therapy aims to facilitate therapy and patient care. Therefore, a workshop held at Rayz Hotel UMM on February 23, 2023 can be an initial step of virtual reality (VR) technology development in psychology.
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This workshop also discussed psychotechnology as said by Adhiyatman Prabowo, S.Psi., M.Psi, the Head of the Psychology Laboratory of UMM. Interestingly, this innovation will be specifically applied to the people with cat phobia.
“The output of this workshop is to develop the psychotechnology of UMM in virtual reality. As we see, technology is still not much developed, especially in Malang,” emphasized Adhiyatman.
Meanwhile, related to the cases of cat phobia, he explained that many Indonesian people have a phobia of cats. Then more futuristic efforts will emerge to tackle this problem.
On the other hand, the workshop invited a famous expert of psychotechnology, Aulia Iskandarsyah, M.Psi., M.Sc., Ph.D. Throughout it, the speakers discussed how far the achievement of technology in psychology is.
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Aulia, her nickname, says that humans are inseparable from electronic devices. Then, technology should facilitate various fields, including psychology. She explains that psychotechnology can be applied for general people, except for vulnerable populations and those who are under 17 years old. Those categorized as sensitive are elderly people, children, and etc.
Aulia states that psychology can integrate with virtual reality technology. It can be done by setting up scenarios humans can sense. Meanwhile, psychotechnology can be implemented to many people even those who do not have special trauma, but are indicated to it.
“Later, we can do many things, like distributing a questionnaire to check for low, moderate, or high function problems, and so on,” she added.
Moreover, this virtual reality technology for psychology has already been developed; it has already run 80%. The work has been done since the last 6 months. One of the examples of the scenario is using basic video reality, where users are asked to see 360 degrees of the situation they are afraid of. Hence, with this training, they are expected to be more calm and relaxed.
However, the sophistication of virtual reality technology has side effects for its users. One of them is migraine caused by the very long usage. Therefore, obvious standard operating procedures must exist, so using VR in psychology can run more maximally. (imh/tri/wil)
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