A Game System for Cognitive Rehabilitation

Shapi’i, Azrulhizam; Zin, Nor Azan Mat; Elaklouk, Ahmed Mohammed

doi:10.1155/2015/493562

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“…Children need more motivation than adults since fun is an essential aspect of therapy for these patients. Kinect games tend to motivate autistic children with hand-eye coordination deficiencies since the detectors allow children who have problems holding a remote control to play [9]. The development methodology and design of the prototype game in this study is based on the user-centered design model.…”

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confidence: 99%

Interactive Games Using Hand-Eye Coordination Method for Autistic Children Therapy

Shapi’i¹,

Rahman²,

Baharuddin³

et al. 2018

International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology

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Recent studies have found that imbalanced motor skills (hand-eye coordination) among autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autistic children cause lower efficiency in daily routines. Autistic children need long-term rehabilitation programs to improve their abilities. However, problems with a lack of motivation to participate in conventional therapy and the high cost of therapy sessions arise over time. Autism children are necessary to do repetitive activities every time through therapy sessions. Repetitive activities cause children having less interest to participate in ongoing therapy sessions. Besides, the therapy process usually requires a long time to be implemented that cause the relatively high cost had to be paid by the patient's family. The use of technology is seen as more effective and less annoying for a child with autism. However, the use of games technology requires the gamer to hold a game controller. Proposals for motion-based toothless games using NUI technology, such as the Kinect Xbox 360, to be used in rehabilitation are exciting for patients, but the design elements do not meet the requirements of autistic people. Hence, this research proposes a Kinect game based on design elements for autistic rehabilitation. The objective of this research is to identify a symptom of eye-hand coordination problem and develop a severe game using Kinect technology as the solution to the problem faced by autism children. This technology provides a low-budget solution costs of therapy and games base on the 3D sensor without the use of control equipment which must behold or touch by hand. Moreover, Kinect does not need a controller or additional body-worn attachment during play time. A game prototype was developed and measured, and evaluation resulted in positive feedback from the user and therapists, thus meeting the objective of this study.

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Interactive Games Using Hand-Eye Coordination Method for Autistic Children Therapy

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Rahman²,

Baharuddin³

et al. 2018

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“…The heterogeneity or diversity of impairments that patients suffer from is a relevant factor for planning, developing, and evaluating treatment and is related to the varied causes and pathophysiologic mechanisms responsible for the neurological deficits of patients. [1] The heterogeneity of TBI leads to variation in the common classification of brain injuries as either mild, moderate, or severe and can also be a significant barrier in brain injury research. The classification of the brain injury is important because it often refers to the level of functioning immediately after a TBI and is discussed with regards to the severity of the brain injury; with patients typically divided into the broad categories of mild, moderate, and severe injury.…”

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Classification of traumatic brain injury severity using retrospective data

Rogers

Trickey²

2017

JNEP

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Objective: Accurate classification of traumatic brain injury (TBI) severity is essential to brain injury research. TBI heterogeneity complicates classification of the injury; is a significant barrier in the design of therapeutic interventions; and results in retrospective data which is difficult to translate. The objective of this study is to describe the differences in two current tools used in the classification of TBI severity, the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) and the head Abbreviated Injury Score (AIS), using retrospective data to compare their performance. Methods: Using correlational and descriptive statistics, this study examined two TBI severity classification methods across a large sample of TBI patients (N = 56,131), who were treated at level I and level II trauma centers in the United States and were included in the 2010 National Sample Program (NSP) of the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB R ). Results: The study population was 67% male, 67% non-Hispanic white, treated most often in trauma centers in the South (38%), with blunt trauma (93%) and from non-motor vehicle collisions (MVC's) (56%). Observation of the AIS classification system demonstrated that it tends to over-score TBI severity compared to the GCS classification. The methods (GCS & AIS) had a weak, inverse relationship with a correlation coefficient (Pearson's r) of -0.3980, which was significant at p < .001. Conclusions: The current study addressed the difficulties associated with categorizing TBI severity when analyzing retrospective data. Although AIS is commonly used to classify severity in retrospective data when GCS is unavailable, the relationship between the two scales is relatively unknown. Results show that AIS and GCS are more closely related for severely brain injured patients but in cases of mild and moderate injury, AIS is less predictive of GCS. Since they are often used in conjunction in identifying brain injured severity in retrospective data, researchers cannot be certain that the tools are similarly classifying mild, moderate, and severe injuries. This study reinforces the need for additional TBI severity classification methods, such as neuroimaging techniques and biomarkers.

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“…Since from the first applications, even the non-immersive virtual reality has shown to be useful to overcome some drawbacks related to the classical rehabilitation techniques, such as lack of motivation, lack of stimuli, boring repetitiveness, and many others. A first interesting work is presented in [35], where the authors propose a system to address brain injuries due to strokes or traumatic events. Their system consists of a WEB platform that allows therapists to set stimulating on-line games, in "arcade" style, to improve attention, memory, and planning skills.…”

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Design of a 3D Platform for Immersive Neurocognitive Rehabilitation

2020

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In recent years, advancements in human–computer interaction (HCI) have enabled the development of versatile immersive devices, including Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs). These devices are usually used for entertainment activities as video-gaming or augmented/virtual reality applications for tourist or learning purposes. Actually, HMDs, together with the design of ad-hoc exercises, can also be used to support rehabilitation tasks, including neurocognitive rehabilitation due to strokes, traumatic brain injuries, or brain surgeries. In this paper, a tool for immersive neurocognitive rehabilitation is presented. The tool allows therapists to create and set 3D rooms to simulate home environments in which patients can perform tasks of their everyday life (e.g., find a key, set a table, do numerical exercises). The tool allows therapists to implement the different exercises on the basis of a random mechanism by which different parameters (e.g., objects position, task complexity) can change over time, thus stimulating the problem-solving skills of patients. The latter aspect plays a key role in neurocognitive rehabilitation. Experiments obtained on 35 real patients and comparative evaluations, conducted by five therapists, of the proposed tool with respect to the traditional neurocognitive rehabilitation methods highlight remarkable results in terms of motivation, acceptance, and usability as well as recovery of lost skills.

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A Game System for Cognitive Rehabilitation

Cited by 24 publications

References 15 publications

Interactive Games Using Hand-Eye Coordination Method for Autistic Children Therapy

Interactive Games Using Hand-Eye Coordination Method for Autistic Children Therapy

Classification of traumatic brain injury severity using retrospective data

Design of a 3D Platform for Immersive Neurocognitive Rehabilitation

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