Contingency Management Behavioral Change Therapy with Virtual Assets and Social Reinforcement as Incentive-Rewards
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1. ) I claim a method for behavior modification which uses virtual assets and/or prompted social reinforcement in interactive digital environments as incentive-rewards in contingency management procedures comprising the steps of:
- a. Selecting a target behavior to be modified.b. Providing access to an interactive digital environment in which one or more of the virtual assets will be made available.c. Setting the schedule of behavioral change objectives to be applied over the time course of the behavior modification therapy (i.e., setting behavioral compliance milestones).d. Monitoring the target behavior in a manner that objectively verifies a participant'"'"'s compliance with the behavioral objectives of the Behavior Modification procedure.e. Setting a schedule of incentive-reward contingencies that establishes what incentive-rewards are available for the accomplishment of each behavioral compliance milestone.f. Delivering virtual assets to the participants as incentive-rewards contingent upon their meeting behavioral compliance milestones as assessed by said monitoring procedure.
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A method for behavior change therapy based on contingency management, using virtual assets from interactive digital environments as incentive-rewards. The invention teaches rewarding positive behavior changes with reinforcement (or the delivery of incentive-rewards) in the form of virtual goods, virtual services, virtual currency, virtual abilities, and social reinforcement in various contexts including videogames and virtual environments.
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1. ) I claim a method for behavior modification which uses virtual assets and/or prompted social reinforcement in interactive digital environments as incentive-rewards in contingency management procedures comprising the steps of:
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a. Selecting a target behavior to be modified. b. Providing access to an interactive digital environment in which one or more of the virtual assets will be made available. c. Setting the schedule of behavioral change objectives to be applied over the time course of the behavior modification therapy (i.e., setting behavioral compliance milestones). d. Monitoring the target behavior in a manner that objectively verifies a participant'"'"'s compliance with the behavioral objectives of the Behavior Modification procedure. e. Setting a schedule of incentive-reward contingencies that establishes what incentive-rewards are available for the accomplishment of each behavioral compliance milestone. f. Delivering virtual assets to the participants as incentive-rewards contingent upon their meeting behavioral compliance milestones as assessed by said monitoring procedure. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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