{"id":5137,"date":"2013-05-28T11:41:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T17:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2013-05-28T11:41:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T17:41:32","slug":"almost-human-lab-treats-trauma-with-virtual-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5137","title":{"rendered":"Almost human: Lab treats trauma with virtual therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-22630812\">Alastair Leithead<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The University of Southern California&#8217;s Institute for Creative Technologies is leading the way in creating virtual humans. The result may produce real help for those in need.<\/p>\n<p>The virtual therapist sits in a big armchair, shuffling slightly and blinking naturally, apparently waiting for me to get comfortable in front of the screen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m Ellie,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Thanks for coming in today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She laughs when I say I find her a little bit creepy, and then goes straight into questions about where I&#8217;m from and where I studied.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alastair Leithead: The University of Southern California&#8217;s Institute for Creative Technologies is leading the way in creating virtual humans. The result may produce real help for those in need. The virtual therapist sits in a big armchair, shuffling slightly and blinking naturally, apparently waiting for me to get comfortable in front of the screen. &#8220;Hi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}