| Creators: |
Inderst, Rudolf and Schollas, Sabine |
| Title: |
"Let peace be upon you" : Von posttraumatischen Belastungsstörungen, Virtual Reality und eigensinnigen KIs in Call of Duty: Black Ops III |
| Item Type: |
Book Section |
| Page Range: |
pp. 211-230 |
| Additional Information: |
Open Access: CC BY 4.0 |
| Date: |
2020 |
| Divisions: |
Informationsmanagement |
| Abstract: |
This essay takes a close look how the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) via virtual reality applications is picked up and portrayed in digital games.
Af ter all, video and computer games provide players with virtual worlds. They send
players, and their characters – particularly in action games and first person shooters –
into theaters of war that will be lef t by many soldiers suf fering from PTSD af ter their missions. Taking Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Treyarch 2015) as a leading example this article shows that the idea of a double virtual world, one with a virtual reality (VR) of therapeutical intention, not only takes the current medical status into consideration,
but it sometimes also uses it for the orchestration of utopian and dystopian storylines. |
| Forthcoming: |
No |
| Language: |
German |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Call of Duty: Black Ops III; Virtual Reality; Artificial Intelligence; PTSD;
Therapy; Künstliche Intelligenz; PTBS; Therapie |
| Link eMedia: |
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| Citation: |
Inderst, Rudolf and Schollas, Sabine
(2020)
"Let peace be upon you" : Von posttraumatischen Belastungsstörungen, Virtual Reality und eigensinnigen KIs in Call of Duty: Black Ops III.
In:
Krankheiten in Digitalen Spielen. Interdisziplinäre Betrachtungen / Görgen, Arno ; Simond, Stefan H. (Hrsg.).
Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 211-230.
(Medical Humanities).
ISBN 9783837653281
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