Serious games for the cognitive stimulation of elderly people

Rodríguez-Fórtiz, María José; Rodríguez-Domínguez, Carlos; Cano, Pedro; Revelles, J.; Rodríguez-Almendros, María Luisa; Torres, María Visitación Hurtado; Rute-Pérez, Sandra

doi:10.1109/segah.2016.7586261

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“…3D virtual environments (VEs) are common in neuropsychological rehabilitation [2,22,57,67,68] to provide high quality visualisations to the cognitively impaired which promote relearning and reinforce IADL. Due to their nature, they can realistically emphasise ecological, economic, and social values.…”

Section: Gameful Cognitive Rehabilitationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A framework and immersive serious game for mild cognitive impairment

Lau

Agius

2021

Multimed Tools Appl

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Cognitive decline is common in the elderly. As a result, a range of cognitive rehabilitation games have been proposed to supplement or replace traditional rehabilitative training by offering benefits such as improved engagement. In this paper, we focus on mild cognitive impairment (MCI), an initial stage of cognitive decline that does not affect functioning in daily life, but which may progress towards more serious cognitive deteriorations, notably dementia. Unfortunately, while a variety of serious game frameworks and rehabilitative serious games have been proposed, there is a distinct lack of those which support the distinctive characteristics of MCI patients. Consequently, to optimise the advantages of serious games for MCI, we propose the MCI-GaTE (MCI-Game Therapy Experience) framework that may be used to develop serious games as effective cognitive and physical rehabilitation tools. The framework is derived from a combination of a survey of related research literature in the area, analysis of resident profiles from a nursing home, and in-depth interviews with occupational therapists (OTs) who work with MCI patients on a daily basis. The conceptual framework comprises four sectors that may be used to guide game design and development: an MCI player profile that represents the capabilities of a player with MCI, core gaming elements that support gameful and playful activities, therapeutic elements that support cognitive and physical rehabilitation through tasks and scenarios according to the player’s abilities, and motivational elements to enhance the player’s attitude towards the serious tasks. Together, they provide support for rehabilitation needs and may also serve as a set of comprehensive and established criteria by which an MCI serious game may be evaluated. To demonstrate the use of MCI-GaTE, we also present A-go!, an immersive gesture-based serious game that exploits the framework to enable MCI-diagnosed players to undertake therapeutic tasks supported by an assigned OT. Evaluation with OTs revealed that the immersive game potentially offers more effective support to MCI patients than traditional methods, contributing new possibilities for enhancing MCI rehabilitative training, while a comparative assessment of MCI-GaTE demonstrated that it provides a comprehensive approach not currently offered by state-of-the-art rehabilitative frameworks.

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Section: Gameful Cognitive Rehabilitationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A framework and immersive serious game for mild cognitive impairment

Lau

Agius

2021

Multimed Tools Appl

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“…Hence, as an example of application of ICT tools, researchers considered to evaluate the effectiveness of Serious Games as a training tool for cognitive abilities, obtaining satisfactory results in terms of cognitive and attention skills, reaction times, and a sense of well-being while playing computer games ( [3], [12], [24], [25], [26], [27]). Several studies focused on the use of Virtual Reality (VR) ( [3], [12], [25], [28], [29], [30]). Serious Games and VR experiences allow users to face situations similar to those encountered in real life, but with complete safety, control and low-cost environment [3].…”

Section: B Intervention Programsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several studies focused on the use of Virtual Reality (VR) ( [3], [12], [25], [28], [29], [30]). Serious Games and VR experiences allow users to face situations similar to those encountered in real life, but with complete safety, control and low-cost environment [3]. In this way, therapists can assess patients' performance.…”

Section: B Intervention Programsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As age progresses, in each person a change in his/her brain structure and functions occurs which can provoke a cognitive decline [1]. Cognitive age-related decay involves several symptoms, such as deficits in memory, reduction in level of attention and concentration as well as planning, problem solving and in executive functions [3]. Deficits in executive functions increase the need for help while carrying out activities of daily living (ADL) [4].…”

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CogAR: an augmented reality App to improve quality of life of the people with cognitive impairment

Rossi

D’Avenio

Morelli

et al. 2020

2020 IEEE 20th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference ( MELECON)

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The number of people affected by dementia in the world is growing up due to the shift of the population age profile. This paper presents a tool to help and support people who suffer from both cognitive decline age-related and cognitive impairments. Cognitive impairment refers to a person who has trouble remembering, learning, concentrating, or making decisions that affect their daily life. Cognitive impairment varies from mild to severe. With mild impairment, people may begin to notice changes in cognitive functions, while still be able to do their everyday activities; on the other hand, severe levels of impairment can lead to losing the ability to understand the meaning or importance of something in addition to the ability to talk or write, resulting in the inability to live independently. We developed an augmented reality home-made App, CogAR, designed for smart glasses. The App can be a useful tool able to provide more independence to patients during actual daily living activities and in navigating their home, providing cues for memory integration in real time. In this way, elderly people, could stay at home longer without the need to move into a care home environment.

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“…In this context, digital games can contribute to the improvement of the ageing process, since they can be used as a means to soften the restrictions due to the age, such as cognitive, motor, perceptive, and psychosocial aspects of people [14][15][16]. Nguyen et al [17] stated that, in addition to entertainment, serious games may have beneficial therapeutic effects for older people as they may improve their health and well-being.…”

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Heuristics and Recommendations for the Design of Mobile Serious Games for Older Adults

Machado

Ferreira

Ishitani

2018

International Journal of Computer Games Technology

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As people get older, their physical and cognitive functions decline. Meeting these needs is an important goal to be reached, to propose activities that may contribute to a better quality of life, including leisure and learning. As such, this paper aims to present a set of heuristics and recommendations for the design of mobile serious games for older adults. To elaborate these heuristics and recommendations, we conducted two studies with older people. In the first study, we invited people aged 60 or more to evaluate mobile games, intending to collect data that could help us to adapt the heuristics that were already published to the public of this research. In the period between the two studies, we developed a serious mobile game (Labuta Batuta) that met the set of adapted heuristics. In the second study, we invited another group of older people, aged 45 or over, to qualitatively evaluate Labuta Batuta, in order to develop a Grounded Theory about the desirable characteristics for the design of serious mobile games for older adults. Besides a Grounded Theory, the second study allowed the identification of nine requirements to be considered when designing the mechanics of mobile games for older adults.

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Serious games for the cognitive stimulation of elderly people

Cited by 20 publications

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A framework and immersive serious game for mild cognitive impairment

A framework and immersive serious game for mild cognitive impairment

CogAR: an augmented reality App to improve quality of life of the people with cognitive impairment

Heuristics and Recommendations for the Design of Mobile Serious Games for Older Adults

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