Employing Multi-agents in 3-D Game for Cognitive Stimulation

Abreu, Priscilla F. De; Werneck, Vera; Costa, Rosa Maria Esteves Moreira da; Carvalho, Luı́s Alfredo Vidal de

doi:10.1109/svr.2011.32

Cited by 17 publications

(14 citation statements)

References 15 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…In recent years, with serious games gaining public attention and becoming an object of interest for researchers, 3D graphics have been introduced in many fields of the medical practice, among which psychological rehabilitation [22][23][24][25][26][27].…”

Section: D Stimulimentioning

confidence: 99%

Computer-based cognitive rehabilitation: the CoRe system

Alloni

Sinforiani²,

Zucchella³

et al. 2015

Disability and Rehabilitation

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

ARTICLE HISTORYPurpose: This work aims at providing a tool for supporting cognitive rehabilitation. This is a wide field, that includes a variety of diseases and related clinical pictures; for this reason the need arises to have a tool available that overcomes the difficulties entailed by what currently is the most common approach, that is, the so-called pen and paper rehabilitation. Methods: We first organized a big number of stimuli in an ontology that represents concepts, attributes and a set of relationships among concepts. Stimuli may be words, sounds, 2D and 3D images. Then, we developed an engine that automatically generates exercises by exploiting that ontology. The design of exercises has been carried on in synergy with neuropsychologists and speech therapists. Solutions have been devised aimed at personalizing the exercises according to both patients' preferences and performance. Results: Exercises addressed to rehabilitation of executive functions and aphasia-related diseases have been implemented. The system has been tested on both healthy volunteers (n 1⁄4 38) and patients (n 1⁄4 9), obtaining a favourable rating and suggestions for improvements. Conclusions: We created a tool able to automate the execution of cognitive rehabilitation tasks. We hope the variety and personalization of exercises will allow to increase compliance, particularly from elderly people, usually neither familiar with technology nor particularly willing to rely on it. The next step involves the creation of a telerehabilitation tool, to allow therapy sessions to be undergone from home, thus guaranteeing continuity of care and advantages in terms of time and costs for the patients and the National Healthcare System (NHS) IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATION• Cognitive impairments can greatly impact an individual' s existence, appreciably reducing his abilities and autonomy, as well as sensibly lowering his quality of life. Cognitive rehabilitation can be used to restore lost brain function or slow down degenerative diseases.• Computerization of rehabilitation entails many advantages, but patients -especially elderlypeople -might be less prone to the use of technology and consequently reluctant towards this innovative therapeutic approach.• Our software system, CoRe, supports a therapist during the administration of rehabilitation sessions: exercises can be generated dynamically, thus reducing repetitivity, and patients' performance trends automatically analysed to facilitate the assessment of their progress.1 CONTACT Anna Alloni, e-mail: anna.alloni@unipv.it, address: Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, via ferrata, 5 -27100, Pavia, Italy• Tests performed on both healthy subjects and patients provided useful information that allowed us to define an implementation strategy able to reduce patients' resistance to computerized rehabilitation as much as possible.

show abstract

Section: D Stimulimentioning

confidence: 99%

Computer-based cognitive rehabilitation: the CoRe system

Alloni

Sinforiani²,

Zucchella³

et al. 2015

Disability and Rehabilitation

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Another different proposal, called OntoRis [24], offers an ontology-based rehabilitation service that the patient can use to acquire comprehensive information about his prescribed rehabilitation treatment, or it can simply serve as an interactive learning platform for people interested in this particular medical field. Finally, Abreu et al [25] focus their attention on cognitive rehabilitation, namely on using 3D games for neuropsychiatric disorders rehabilitation. These authors propose a MAS for automatic control while the patient is playing a 3D game in order to reduce human intervention needed to manage the execution of software processes.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Multi-Agent System in Ambient Intelligence for the Physical Rehabilitation of Older People

Roda¹,

Rodríguez²,

López-Jaquero

et al. 2015

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract. Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a very active topic of research that is gaining more and more attention because of its characteristics, transparency and intelligence. Older people is one of the collectives that can take advantage of the use of AmI systems because, thanks to these characteristics, AmI systems can focus on older adults' real needs so that they satisfy one of their main motivations to adapt technological innovations: perceived benefits. And, perhaps, everything related to healthcare and home care is perceived by them as both valuable and beneficial. In this paper, it is presented the Multi-Agent architecture (MAS) of a healthcare AmI system to treat older people' motor impairment problems by using specific devices to control the patient's movements. In this way, the natural relationship between AmI and MAS is being widely exploited. AmI proposes the development of context-aware systems that integrate different devices to recognize the context and act accordingly. Agents provide an effective way to develop such systems since agents are reactive, proactive and exhibit an intelligent and autonomous behavior. One of the main differences of our system is that it provides therapist with support to design new therapies, to adapt them to each specific person and to control their execution instead of using a fixed set of exercises.

show abstract

“…We follow the restriction presented in the work of Almeida and Haeusler [25] in which there are only three types of transition to define all valid Petri Nets due to its compositions. These basic Petri Nets are as in Fig.…”

Section: Stochastic Petri Netsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, there is a growing preoccupation from the different governments, public organizations and private entities. In this regard, since the declaration of the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities by the UN [25], different national, regional and local governmental organizations have developed specific regulatory frameworks that have improved the everyday lives of people with disabilities, where we can highlight, at European level, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union [4], the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union [7], the Council Directive 2000/78/EC [14] and the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 [6]. These initiatives go in hand with a growing academic attention, which has allowed the development of systems, techniques, models and methodologies oriented to improve the accessibility [18].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Trends in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Sustainability

Pérez¹,

Hernández²,

Mathieu

et al. 2015

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The series "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing" contains publications on theory, applications, and design methods of Intelligent Systems and Intelligent Computing. Virtually all disciplines such as engineering, natural sciences, computer and information science, ICT, economics, business, e-commerce, environment, healthcare, life science are covered. The list of topics spans all the areas of modern intelligent systems and computing.The publications within "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing" are primarily textbooks and proceedings of important conferences, symposia and congresses. They cover significant recent developments in the field, both of a foundational and applicable character. An important characteristic feature of the series is the short publication time and world-wide distribution. This permits a rapid and broad dissemination of research results. Advisory BoardChairman Nikhil R. Pal,

show abstract

Employing Multi-agents in 3-D Game for Cognitive Stimulation

Cited by 17 publications

References 15 publications

Computer-based cognitive rehabilitation: the CoRe system

Computer-based cognitive rehabilitation: the CoRe system

A Multi-Agent System in Ambient Intelligence for the Physical Rehabilitation of Older People

Trends in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Sustainability

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About