Towards Efficacy-Centered Game Design Patterns For Brain Injury Rehabilitation

Cheng, Jinghui; Putnam, Cynthia; Rusch, Doris C.

doi:10.1145/2700648.2809856

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“…Moreover, the results of this suitability study suggest that GNomon-based games could be exploitable in speech therapy with children with cognitive impairments, or in brain injury (BI) therapy. It was found that the main pediatric rehabilitation aspects of GNomon-based games, identied in the focus group, nely address some of the main goals of BI therapy (according to [16]), such as attention/coordination, processing speed, hand-eye coordination, sequencing and command following, and visual spatial abilities, among others.…”

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“…However, in one case, the rotation speed was modied after the rst mini game. The rotation speed is expressed as an integer in the linear interval [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20], where 1 represents a rotation period of 10 seconds and 20 represents a rotation period of 1 second. Determining the right rotation speed is a sensitive task, especially when the participants had attention diculties, because setting a faster speed increases the diculty of successfully selecting the intended ladybug, while a slower speed gave some participants enough time to be distracted and forget about the selection task.…”

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Design and Development of One-Switch Video Games for Children with Severe Motor Disabilities

López

Corno

Russis

2017

ACM Trans. Access. Comput.

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Video games are not just played for fun, they have become a handy instrument for the cognitive, emotional and social development of children. However, several barriers prevent many children with disabilities from playing action-oriented video games, alone or with their peers. In particular, children with severe motor disabilities, who rely on one-switch interaction for accessing electronic devices, nd fast-paced games, that require rapid decision-making and timely responses, completely unplayable. This paper contributes to lowering such barriers by presenting GNomon, a software framework that allows the creation of action-oriented single switch video games. The paper reports the results of two studies that evaluate the playability and rehabilitation-suitability of GNomon-based video games. The playability of GNomon-based games is evaluated by assessing their learnability, eectiveness, errors, satisfaction, memorability and enjoyability, with a group of 8 children with severe motor disabilities. The suitability for pediatric rehabilitation is determined by means of a focus group with a team of speech therapists, physiotherapists, and psychologists from a Local Health Agency in Turin, Italy. The results of the playability study are positive: all children had fun playing GNomon-based video games, and 7 out of 8 were able to interact and play autonomously. The results of the rehabilitation-suitability study also entail that GNomon-based games can be exploited in training hand-eye coordination and maintenance of selective attention over time. The paper nally oers critical hindsight and reections, and shows possible new future game concepts. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Accessibility design and evaluation methods; Graphical user interfaces; • Applied computing → Computer games;

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Design and Development of One-Switch Video Games for Children with Severe Motor Disabilities

López

Corno

Russis

2017

ACM Trans. Access. Comput.

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“…Their structure of the pattern can be seen as an evolution over the Formal Abstract Design Tools (FADT) suggested by Church and consists of 1) name, 2) concise description, often with notes in which game the pattern was identified, 3) consequences of applying the solution suggested by pattern, 4) how to use the pattern, and 5) relations to other patterns [107]. Moreover, it should be mentioned, that some researchers used the proposed pattern structure also as basis in formalising and expanding serious game design patterns, linking it with the "serious" part of the game [108,109,110,111]. Kelle, for example, introduced the concept of "game learning patterns" (GLP) as a methodology for the design of learning games by using game design patterns and matching these with corresponding learning functions [108] while Reuter et.…”

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“…Not engaging gameplay was also a common critique of games designed to address brain injury rehabilitation and patterns might be a solution [109]. Moreover, Cheng et al argue that investigating patterns in games for rehabilitation is beneficial for researchers and designers for several reasons: 1) game design patterns have the capacity to capture the qualitative information about brain injury rehabilitation, 2) have the ability to distill abstract game design knowledge from a large amount of data about how well existing games worked in therapy into a set of coherent and tangible exemplars, and 3) patterns as a common language can serve as a valuable tool to facilitate effective communication and mutual understanding among game designers and therapists [109].…”

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Processes and Models for Serious Game Design and Development

Braad

Žavcer

Sandovar

2016

Entertainment Computing and Serious Games

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Abstract.A serious game needs to combine a number of different aspects to help the end user in reaching the desired effects. This requires incorporating a broad range of different aspects in the design, stemming from a broad range of different fields of expertise. For designers, developers, researchers, and other stakeholders it is not straightforward how to organize the design and development process, to make sure that these aspects are properly addressed. In this chapter we will discuss a number of ways of organizing the design and development process and various models that support specific design decisions during this process, concluding with a discussion of design patterns for serious games.Keywords: serious game design, game development process, design science research. IntroductionA serious game incorporates play as well as a myriad of other aspects: motivation, learning content, feedback. For designers, developers, but also researchers and other stakeholders, it is not straightforward what steps to take from a problem statement towards a game that can be played by the intended users. This chapter provides an overview of various approaches, models, and frameworks that can be used to support the design and development of serious games. This chapter is organized into four main sections. In the first section, we will discuss a number of important aspects pertaining to the context in which a serious game is designed and the context in which the game is intended to be used. Subsequently, we will take on a high level perspective and discuss a number of processes that are being used to design and develop serious games. In the third section, we will present a number of design models that assist in making design choices to achieve particular effects with the resulting game. This approach is becoming more and more formalized using a design patterns approach, which are discussed in the final section.At the end of the chapter, a number of future research questions and suggested reading material are included. ContextA serious game only becomes an effective tool to foster learning, promote healthy behavior, or change behavior, when it is played by players. Necessarily, playing takes place in a specific context and it is often hard for a game designer to foresee the time, place, culture, and other contextual aspects that affect the player experience. Considering this context for which a serious game is designed is therefore an important step of the design process: from this context stems an important set of specific design requirements for the serious game.Before we can discuss particular development process frameworks or more detailed design models to support design decisions, we will first explore the context. We will do so by pointing out a number of different, and often opposing, perspectives. From a user perspective, we will start with the different views that designers and users have of the game. From a game perspective, we emphasize that they differ a large amount in the audience and purposes that they address. F...

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“…Several game interventions that have been customized for people with cognitive disabilities have been developed. However, it is challenging to successfully design such games [16], [17]. Previous works in this field lack the understanding of what makes therapeutic games for cognitive rehabilitation effective [13], [18].…”

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A Rehabilitation Gaming System for Cognitive Deficiencies: Design and Usability Evaluation

Elaklouk¹,

Zin

2019

Int. J. Adv. Sci. Eng. Inf. Technol.

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Patients with Acquired Brain Injuries or ABI experience various cognitive deficiencies that adversely impact their daily lives, as their ability to perform everyday activities, becomes severely limited. These patients would benefit more from engaging in unconventional cognitive rehabilitation, specifically rehabilitation using Serious Games. However, it is difficult to categorize cognitive disabilities due to their heterogeneity; therefore individualized rehabilitation interventions are required. It is also challenging to design games for cognitive rehabilitation, as the complexity and production cost for these games are usually very high. There is an abundance of recent studies on cognitive rehabilitation, particularly game-based interventions. However, some studies explain how to design games that are enjoyable and usable for patients with cognitive disabilities. Hence, this study addresses this issue with a proposed framework for therapeutic game developers targeting patients with cognitive deficiencies. To this end, a prototype Rehabilitation Gaming System (RGS) was developed and evaluated by therapists. A 7-point Likert scale usability questionnaire was used and the mean scores for layout/design (5.94), ease of use (5.40), easy to learn (5.76), usefulness (5.96) and satisfaction (6.1) indicate that RGS has good usability. Therapists are willing to use RGS for rehabilitation purposes. Practitioners, game developers, and patients in the healthcare field will be able to use the proposed framework as a guide and tool for designing and implementing games targeted for cognitive rehabilitation.

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Towards Efficacy-Centered Game Design Patterns For Brain Injury Rehabilitation

Cited by 17 publications

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Design and Development of One-Switch Video Games for Children with Severe Motor Disabilities

Design and Development of One-Switch Video Games for Children with Severe Motor Disabilities

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A Rehabilitation Gaming System for Cognitive Deficiencies: Design and Usability Evaluation

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