Patrice Renaud, Ph. D., Psychology
Fernand-Seguin Research Center
Site : Institut Philippe-Pinel
10 905, boul. Henri-Bourassa East
Montreal (Quebec) H1C 1H1
Phone: 514-881-3764
Fax: 514-881-3701
Email: patrice.renaud@uqo.ca
Research areas
Academic profile
Ph.D. in Psychology
Professor, Université du Québec en Outaouais
Profile
Patrice Renaud is in the process of setting up a promising program for the evaluation of deviant preferences in sexual offenders by means of video-oculography in virtual immersion. This new technology holds tremendous potential also in the sphere of intervention. By virtual reality is meant a set of technologies that allow simulating reality and immersing users in it for the purpose of interaction. In this regard, Patrice Renaud has obtained a CIHR grant to evaluate sexual preferences by means of video-oculography in virtual immersion with a sample of offenders who victimized children and adolescents. By pairing it in future with measurement and induction technologies such as near-infrared spectroscopic imagery, immersive video-oculography (measurement of oculomotor activity), sexual plethysmography, and transcranial magnetic stimulation, virtual reality can become a formidable instrument of research in the field of neuroscience applied to the problem of sexual abuse. Patrice Renaud holds a patent on a method for providing data to be used by a therapist for analyzing a patient behavior in a virtual environment, granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office in June 2006. He earned the 2005 Research Innovation Award handed out by the Association de l’industrie des technologies de la santé at the Genesis Gala held in the course of the annual BioMEDEX conference for his project “Behaviour modification using immersive video-oculography”.
This prize is awarded annually to the most promising projects in the field of health technologies, particularly in terms of market potential. The virtual characters used in his research are developed in close collaboration with Darwin Dimension.
Research interests
Virtual reality, perception, motricity, ergonomics, psychophysiology, sexual offenders
Recents Publications
Renaud, P., Joyal, C., Stoleru, S., Goyette, M., Weiskopf, N., & Birbaumer, N. (2011). Real-time functional magnetic imaging-brain-computer interface and virtual reality. promising tools for the treatment of pedophilia. Progress in Brain Research, 192, 263-272. Pubmed
Renaud, P., Goyette, M., Chartier, S., Zhornitski, S., Trottier, D., Rouleau, J. L., et al. (2010). Sexual Affordances, Perceptual-motor Invariance Extraction and Intentional Nonlinear Dynamics: Sexually Deviant and Non-deviant Patterns in Male Subjects. Nonlinear dynamics, psychology, and life sciences, 14(4), 463-462. Pubmed
Renaud, P., Chartier, S., & Albert, G. (2009). Embodied and embedded: The dynamics of extracting perceptual visual invariants. [References]. In S. J. Guastello, M. Koopmans & D. Pincus (Eds.), Chaos and complexity in psychology: The theory of nonlinear dynamical systems (pp. 177-205).
Chartier, S., Renaud, P., & Boukadoum, M. (2008). A nonlinear dynamic artificial neural network model of memory. New Ideas in Psychology, 26(2), 252-277.
Renaud, P., Chartier, S., et al. (2007). "The Feeling Of Presence As Determined By Fractal Oculomotor Dynamics." Cyberpsychology and Behavior 10: 122-130.
Chartier, S., Renaud, P., et al. (2006). "Sexual Preference Classification from Gaze Behavior Data using a Multilayer Perceptron." Annual Review of CyberTherapy and Telemedicine 4: 149-157.
Renaud, P., Albert, G., et al. (2006). "Mesures et rétroactions psychophysiologiques en immersion virtuelle: le cas des réponses oculomotrices et sexuelles." Interaction Humain Machine: 175-178.
Renaud, P., Chartier, S. et al. (2006). "Sexual Presence as Determined by Fractal Oculomotor Dynamics." Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine 4: 87-94.
Renaud, P., Proulx, J., et al. (2005). "The Recording of Observational Behaviors in Virtual Immersion: A New Clinical Tool to Address the Problem of Sexual Preferences with Paraphiliacs." Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine 3: 85-92.
Albert, G., Renaud, P., et al. (2005). "Scene Perception, Gaze Behavior and Perceptual Learning in Virtual Environments." CyberPsychology and Behavior 8(6): 592-600.
Bouchard, S., Paquin, B., Renaud, P., et al. (2004). "Delivering Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia in Videoconference." Telemedicine Journal and e-Health 10(1): 13-25.
Bouchard, S., St-Jacques, J., Renaud, P., et al. (2004). "Exemples de l'utilisation de la réalité virtuelle dans le traitement des phobies / Using virtual reality in the treatment of phobias." Revue Francophone de Clinique Comportementale et Cognitive 3(4): 5-12.
Robillard, G., Bouchard, S., Renaud, P., et al. (2004). "La réalité virtuelle et la psychoéducation: Illustration d'un outil prometteur." Revue de Psychoéducation 33(1): 75-91.
Bouchard, S., St-Jacques, J., Renaud, P., et al. (2003). "Efficacité de l'exposition en réalité virtuelle pour l'acrophobie: Une étude préliminaire." Journal de Thérapie Comportementale et Cognitive 13(3): 107-112.
Renaud, P., Décarie, J., et al. (2003). "Eye-Tracking Technologies in Immersive Environments: A General Methodology to Analyze Affordance-Based Interactions from Oculomotor Dynamics." Cyberpsychology and Behavior 6(5): 519-526.
Robillard, G., Bouchard, S., Renaud, P., et al. (2003). "Anxiety and Presence during VR Immersion: A Comparative Study of the Reactions of Phobic and Non-Phobic Participants in Therapeutic Virtual Environments Derived from Computer Games." Cyberpsychology and Behavior 6(5): 467-476.