Deploying Serious Games for Cognitive Rehabilitation

Perri, Damiano; Simonetti, Marco; Gervasi, Osvaldo

doi:10.3390/computers11070103

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“…These days, VR and AR are used for various purposes. From the fields of entertainment [28,29], education [30,31,32,33], tourism [34,35,36,37,38,39], networking and communications [40,41], microelectronic and high-performances hardware industries [42], e-commerce [25,43,44], medicine [45,46,47,48,49]. The thought may be to establish computerised conditions to upgrade abilities, information, and capabilities in mathematics, which can diminish tension and further develop results [50].…”

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Empowering Knowledge With Virtual and Augmented Reality

Gervasi,

Perri,

Simonetti

2023

IEEE Access

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Recent global advancements in ICT technologies have motivated our research to assess the impact of Virtual and Augmented Reality on teaching and learning. In particular, we conducted a rigorous study on the effects on learning by subjecting classes of students to an experience of these emerging technologies and measuring their feelings before and after the experiment through questionnaires. We carried out the research involving three high schools and a total of 162 students aged between 15 and 20. During the meetings, we made available two applications that we developed. The first is a Virtual Reality environment that enables the user to explore a room in which the system spawns three-dimensional objects defined by the teacher. The objects may represent mathematical functions, physics simulations, scenes relating to historical re-enactments, etc. The second is an Augmented Reality smartphone application that allows three-dimensional figures to be observed via the smartphone screen by framing a marker printed on paper. Both applications are realised with free software, trying to minimise the technical requirements for their operation and guaranteeing reliability and usability. The work concludes by analysing the results obtained and comparing the effectiveness of the two technologies tested. Results of tests conducted in three Italian schools show that Augmented Reality is seen as a useful tool in education by about 94.43%. Importantly, the use of these technologies requires an inclusive design that involves all students, regardless of their level of familiarity with the technology. The overall analysis reveals that both technologies performed well, and students value them for their intuitiveness and level of immersion. The in presence experience is more effective for using immersive applications fostered by student collaboration.

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Empowering Knowledge With Virtual and Augmented Reality

Gervasi,

Perri,

Simonetti

2023

IEEE Access

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“…S.M.A.R.T BrainGames ( http://www.braingames.com ) and Full Spectrum Warrior ( http://www.fullspectrumwarrior.com ) are intended for patients with mental illness or post-traumatic stress disorders allowing them to do cognitive training and interactive brain exercises, thus strengthening their mental skills [ 21 ]. These rehabilitation serious games can improve motor activities such as walking, sitting, standing, and the process of switching from one type to another for post-stroke patients [ 22 ].…”

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Development and Evaluation of an Artificial Intelligence–Based Cognitive Exercise Game: A Pilot Study

Eun

Kim

2022

Journal of Environmental and Public Health

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Recently, cognitive serious games have successfully been employed to train cognitive abilities in elderly people with mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease, and related disorders. However, despite the continuous rehabilitation game design and its applications, the existing cognitive exercise games fall short of user interaction and personalized elements with regard to difficult levels, which leads to users leaving early and losing interests during the gameplay. In this regard, the purpose of the study was to design and develop the serious game inclusive of playful elements for user motivation, the web-based mobile application system for easy accessibility, and Artificial Intelligence– (AI–) based difficulty level adjustment system for prevention from earlier leaving out in the middle of the play so that the elderly users can feel entertaining and immersed into the cognitive game voluntarily. This study was designed as an eight-week pilot experiment with thirty-seven participants in their 60s to 80s for the game’s usability assessment purpose. Results of the study showed that the AI-based cognitive exercise game was acceptable, interesting, and motivating for the elderly people and the test results before and after the eight-week training suggest a relationship between longer the training on the game and lower cognitive assessment scores including geriatric quality of life scale, geriatric depression scale, and Korean version of mini-mental state examination (MMSE). These correlations demonstrate the potential value of serious games in clinical assessment of cognitive status for the elderly users with varying cognitive ability. Based on these results, the elderly-centered serious game with playful element can be potentially used in clinical settings, allowing the cognitive training to be more enjoyable and more medically effective. Given these promising results, a more focused study can extend to the game system or additional game tools or features to be explored that solely target the elderly by applying AI and advanced visualization devices.

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