Exhibition of Lee Myung Digital Therapeutic Device
Integration of VR Technology in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Hanyang University’s Game Research Lab achieved the great feat of winning the Best Innovation Award at 'CES 2025,' the world's largest IT exhibition held in Las Vegas, USA.
On the 1st, Hanyang University announced that the 'Hanyang University Graduate School Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Department Game Research Lab' became the first university research institute to receive the Best Innovation Award at CES.
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) in the United States forms a panel of judges consisting of experts in industrial design, engineering, and media each year to select CES Innovation Award winners from the submitted innovative technologies and products.
This year, the number of CES entries reached a record high of 3,400. The number of categories also increased from 29 to 33, with new additions including Beauty & Personal Care, Fashion Tech, Industrial Equipment & Machinery, and Pet Tech & Animal Welfare.
The Hanyang University Game Research Lab submitted the Tinnitus Digital Treatment device (TD2-Tinnitus Digital Treatment), which combines auditory, visual, and tactile feedback systems with virtual reality (VR) technology to treat cognitive behavior. This device operates by allowing patients to directly control a patient-customized tinnitus 3D sound avatar generated by a generative AI variant autoencoder within a virtual reality environment.
The device creates a virtual environment that provides multisensory (visual, auditory, tactile) stimuli so that patients suffering from tinnitus can perceive the tinnitus source location outside their ear. Then, by allowing patients to control the perceived tinnitus avatar themselves and correct the misperception, tinnitus symptoms can be alleviated.
Professor Kim Kibum of Hanyang University said, "TD Square is a project developed over the past five years, starting from an early version in 2020," and added, "This achievement was made possible through the cooperation and hard work of graduate students in the Hanyang University Game Research Lab."
Meanwhile, the Hanyang University Game Research Lab is conducting research on a virtual reality walking assistance system for the visually impaired to enjoy the latest virtual and augmented reality technologies, as well as on the development of e-sports game content for the visually impaired.
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