Possibility of cutting-edge technology and biofeedback therapy

Abstract

  Over 40 years in the history of Japan Society of Biofeedback Research, the environment surrounding Biofeedback has been changed in recent years. Due to the progress of science, a new technology that was never expected in the past has come to be utilized or, even if the technology itself hasn’t been changed, it begins to be used in a new way because of equipment’s downsizing. Especially for minimization of a microchip in PCs or others, sophisticated devices become surprisingly smaller and it is considered that the stream of wearable devices, in which people “wear” advanced technologies such as smartphones like iPhone, boosts the trend of minimization. In this symposium, I introduced our study in which virtual reality was utilized for care prevention or health enhancement, using the biosignal sensing technology such as a Kinect^TM sensor that is one of the advanced technologies. In the future, it is expected that this field will be expanding wider.