Oswald D. Kothgassner
Lecturer
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Medical University of Vienna
Austria
Biography
Dr. Oswald D. Kothgassner is currently working as a Lecturer in the Department of Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna ,  Austria. His research interests includes Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He /she is serving as an editorial member and reviewer of several international reputed journals. Dr. Oswald D. Kothgassner is the member of many international affiliations. He/ She has successfully completed his Administrative responsibilities. He /she has authored of many research articles/books related to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Research Interest
My main research focus is to develope and evaluate new technology-based tools for psychological therapy to treat behavioral and stress-related disorders in adolescence and young adults. This research sets out to understand human experiences and behavior in Virtual Reality (VR) as well as to assess the nature of social interaction with virtual entities. VR is used to explore the basics of virtual experiences and to assess possibilities of use such as a tool for psychological treatment. VR offers manifold possibilities to treat disorders affecting social behavior as well as stress-related disorders using game-based therapy tools as well as VR exposure therapy. Furthermore I'm interested in the development of new assessments of stress-related disorders in children and adolescents to validate diagnosis, using proper multidimensional questionnaires and psychophysiological measures (ECG, SCL, EMG, EEG).
Publications
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Felnhofer, A.*, Kothgassner, O.D.*, Hetterle, T., Beutl, L., Hlavacs, H. & Kryspin-Exner, I. (2014). Afraid to be there? Evaluating the relation between presence, self-reported anxiety and heart rate in a virtual public speaking task. Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, 17(5), 310-316. *Shared first authorship
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Kothgassner, O. D., Felnhofer, A., Hlavacs, H., Beutl, L., Palme, R., Kryspin-Exner, I., & Glenk, L. M. (2016). Salivary cortisol and cardiovascular reactivity to a public speaking task in a virtual and real-life environment. Computers in Human Behavior, 62, 124-135.
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Kothgassner, O. D., Griesinger, M., Kettner, K., Wayan, K., Völkl-Kernstock, S., Hlavacs, H., ... & Felnhofer, A. (2017). Real-life prosocial behavior decreases after being socially excluded by avatars, not agents. Computers in Human Behavior 70, 261-269.
