Smartkuber: A Serious Game for Cognitive Health Screening of Elderly Players

Boletsis, Costas; McCallum, Simon

doi:10.1089/g4h.2015.0107

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“…In this context, ICT solutions have been reported as promising [129, 130] and exergames lend themselves to personalization of interventions [131]. Various ICT based solutions for optimised tailoring of exercise interventions have been proposed to support not only people with dementia but also their families and caregivers [132, 133]. Video game play-driven physical activities require mental engagement and would, thus, be in line with recommendations of the Global Council on Brain Health [134].…”

Section: Personalized Ict Interventions For Active Ageingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making More of IT: Enabling Intensive Motor Cognitive Rehabilitation Exercises in Geriatrics Using Information Technology Solutions

McCaskey

Schättin

Martin-Niedecken

et al. 2018

BioMed Research International

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Although the health benefits of physical activity and exercise for older people are well established, a largely sedentary lifestyle still prevails in ageing western societies. Finding new ways to make exercise more accessible and acceptable for older adults must be developed to fully unleash its potential in preventing and weakening age-related physical and cognitive decline. Existing barriers to implement effective exercise-based treatment plans include motivational reservations on both the clinician's and patient's side, but also physical limitations caused by disease or deconditioning. Particularly in the more senior population, debilitating conditions do not allow adherence to currently recommended exercise regimes. A major rethinking of age- and user-adapted exercise is overdue. The high intensities required for physical and mental adaptations must be modifiable and personalized according to the functional status of each patient. Emerging information and communication technologies (ICT) have brought forward a plethora of attractive solutions for smart and adapted exercise, but there remains a vast gap between technological advancement and clinical relevance. Where in the beginning ICT for active ageing mainly focussed on aspects of usability and user experience, the current status of IT as applied in ageing populations noticeably shifted toward new services, applications, and devices that can be offered with the aim to prevent, compensate, care, and/or enhance daily life functioning of senior citizens. In this perspective paper, we aim to summarize the current state of the art in ICT-based interventions aimed at improved motor-cognitive control and make suggestions about how these could be combined with high-intensive interval exercise regimes to make rehabilitation for the impaired older adults more effective, and more fun.

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Section: Personalized Ict Interventions For Active Ageingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making More of IT: Enabling Intensive Motor Cognitive Rehabilitation Exercises in Geriatrics Using Information Technology Solutions

McCaskey

Schättin

Martin-Niedecken

et al. 2018

BioMed Research International

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“…In addition, we tested the association between serious games performances and cognitive abilities on a very numerous sample of over 50 adults. Many studies indeed in the existing literature had smaller sample size and should be considered only preliminary with respect to the validation of these platforms (e.g., McGee et al, 2000 ; Boletsis and McCallum, 2016 ; Oliveira et al, 2016 ; Vallejo et al, 2017 ).…”

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“…For instance, McGee et al ( 2000 ) developed a virtual environment version of the Morris Water Task—in which participants navigated in a virtual water pool—and tested its ability in assessing visuospatial mechanisms in a sample of 30 older adults aged between 65 and 92 years old. Recently Boletsis and McCallum ( 2016 ) verified the association between a SG called Smartkuber—consisting in a collection of cognitive mini-games in augmented reality—and standard cognitive assessments in a sample of 13 older adults. Another virtual environment platform for cognitive assessment was the ECO-VR (Oliveira et al, 2016 ), which consisted in performing several real-word activities, such as listening to a message on the answering machine, and that was tested for correlations with standard neuropsychological assessments in a series of pilot studies involving a sample of 37 older adults.…”

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Smart Aging Platform for Evaluating Cognitive Functions in Aging: A Comparison with the MoCA in a Normal Population

Bottiroli

Tassorelli

Lamonica³

et al. 2017

Front. Aging Neurosci.

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Background: Smart Aging is a Serious games (SGs) platform in a 3D virtual environment in which users perform a set of screening tests that address various cognitive skills. The tests are structured as 5 tasks of activities of daily life in a familiar environment. The main goal of the present study is to compare a cognitive evaluation made with Smart Aging with those of a classic standardized screening test, the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA).Methods: One thousand one-hundred thirty-one healthy adults aged between 50 and 80 (M = 64.3 ± 8.3) were enrolled in the study. They received a cognitive evaluation with the MoCA and the Smart Aging platform. Participants were grouped according to their MoCA global and specific cognitive domain (i.e., memory, executive functions, working memory, visual spatial elaboration, language, and orientation) scores and we explored differences among these groups in the Smart Aging indices.Results: One thousand eighty-six older adults (M = 64.0 ± 8.0) successfully completed the study and were stratified according to their MoCA score: Group 1 with MoCA < 27 (n = 360); Group 2 with 27 ≥ MoCA < 29 (n = 453); and Group 3 with MoCA ≥ 29 (n = 273). MoCA groups significantly differed in most of the Smart Aging indices considered, in particular as concerns accuracy (ps < 0.001) and time (ps < 0.001) for completing most of the platform tasks. Group 1 was outperformed by the other two Groups and was slower than them in these tasks, which were those supposed to assess memory and executive functions. In addition, significant differences across groups also emerged when considering the single cognitive domains of the MoCA and the corresponding performances in each Smart Aging task. In particular, this platform seems to be a good proxy for assessing memory, executive functions, working memory, and visual spatial processes.Conclusion: These findings demonstrate the validity of Smart Aging for assessing cognitive functions in normal aging. Future studies will validate this platform also in the clinical aging populations.

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“…This approach, followed in Johnsen et al [19], is structured as a set of representative measures: Across-model domain function saturation, within-model domain function saturation, learnability, efficiency, error prevention and recovery, and user impression of how useful, usable, and likable the system is. Another interesting proposal in this line is the System Usability Scale (SUS) in Brooke [25], which is followed in Lorenzini et al [23], Boletsis and McCallum [29], and Vallejo et al [30].…”

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Validation and Psychometric Properties of the Gameplay-Scale for Educative Video Games in Spanish Children

et al. 2020

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The knowledge of evaluation instruments to determine the level of gameplay of schoolchildren is very important at this time. A systematic review has been carried out in this study. The aim of this paper is to investigate the psychometric properties of a study of a sample of Spanish gamers. Two hundred and thirty-seven children (mean age: 11.2± 1.17 years, range: 10-12 years, 59.5% female) completed the Gameplay-Scale to discover their opinions after a game session with a serious educational game. The final scale consisted of three factors. The fit for factor 1 (usability) was 0.712, the fit for factor 2 was 0.702 (satisfaction), the fit for factor 3 was 0.886 (empathy) and the overall fit was 0.868. A positive and direct relationship could be observed between all the dimensions of the developed scale. The greatest correlation strength is shown between satisfaction and empathy (r = 0.800; p < 0.005), followed by satisfaction and usability (r = 0.180; p < 0.05) and the association between empathy and usability (r = 0.140; p < 0.05). In summary, the results of the present study support the use of the Gameplay-Scale as a valid and reliable measure of the game experience of youth populations. These results demonstrate strong psychometric properties so that the Gameplay-Scale appears to be a valid instrument for children in different contexts where an educational video game is used, analyzing its usability/"playability" in terms of learning to use it, game satisfaction, and empathy.

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Smartkuber: A Serious Game for Cognitive Health Screening of Elderly Players

Abstract: The study shows that Smartkuber is a promising tool for cognitive health screening, providing an entertaining and motivating gaming experience to elderly players. Limitations of the study and future directions are discussed.

Cited by 47 publications

References 33 publications

Making More of IT: Enabling Intensive Motor Cognitive Rehabilitation Exercises in Geriatrics Using Information Technology Solutions

Making More of IT: Enabling Intensive Motor Cognitive Rehabilitation Exercises in Geriatrics Using Information Technology Solutions

Smart Aging Platform for Evaluating Cognitive Functions in Aging: A Comparison with the MoCA in a Normal Population

Validation and Psychometric Properties of the Gameplay-Scale for Educative Video Games in Spanish Children

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