BackgroundCare and support of children with physical or mental disabilities are accompanied with serious concerns for parents, families, healthcare institutions, schools, and their communities. Recent studies and technological innovations have demonstrated the feasibility of providing therapy and rehabilitation services to children supported by computer games.ObjectiveThe aim of this paper is to present HapHop-Physio, an innovative computer game that combines exercise with fun and learning, developed to support cognitive therapies in children.MethodsConventional software engineering methods such as the Scrum methodology, a functionality test and a related usability test, were part of the comprehensive methodology adapted to develop HapHop-Physio.ResultsThe game supports visual and auditory attention therapies, as well as visual and auditory memory activities. The game was developed by a multidisciplinary team, which was based on the Hopscotch® platform provided by Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT Institute in Germany, and designed in collaboration with a rehabilitation clinic in Colombia. HapHop-Physio was tested and evaluated to probe its functionality and user satisfaction.ConclusionThe results show the development of an easy-to-use and funny game by a multidisciplinary team using state-of-the-art videogame technologies and software methodologies. Children testing the game concluded that they would like to play again while undergoing rehabilitation therapies.

This paper investigates the use of invasive computing to enforce the power budget in an HPC infrastructure. Invasive MPI along with the Invasive Resource Manager (IRM) provides an infrastructure for developing malleable/invasive applications. In IRM, a power model is used to predict the power consumption of each application. If a violation in power corridor is predicted, IRM reconfigures the node allocation among the applications to keep the whole system back into the power corridor. Since development of invasive applications is a complex task, a new programming model called Elastic Phase Oriented Programming (EPOP) is developed to simplify the invasive programming. This model is also capable of collecting and sharing power usage metrics as well as performance metrics to IRM.