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Chapter 8. Conclusion<br />
the main future work direction which could be extremely interesting, would be to evaluate<br />
such an environment with an agoraphobic population.<br />
8.2.4 Eye-tracking for Diagnosis and Assessment<br />
Finally, concerning the two other studies we have conducted and described in Chapters 6.2<br />
and 6.3, regarding the use of eye-tracking as diagnosis and assessment tool, it could be<br />
interesting to conduct a study on a large cohort in order to statistically validate our tools.<br />
8.3 Final words<br />
In this thesis, we have focused on the simulation and the use of gaze attention behaviors in<br />
the con<strong>text</strong> of social phobia. Working in this area has been a fascinating experience and there<br />
is still much to learn in the domain. We believe that a lot remains to be done in the human -<br />
virtual human interactions and more specifically in applications dealing with health. As the<br />
saying goes, “the eyes are the window to the soul”. We are convinced that the day we will be<br />
able to reach real empathy between real humans and virtual characters by using non-verbal<br />
behavior, we will have made an important step in the ability to use VR in the treatment of<br />
social phobia. We believe that in this thesis, we have been able to make small but nonetheless<br />
meaningful steps in that direction.<br />
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