Wheelchair-based game design for older adults

Gerling, Kathrin; Mandryk, Regan L.; Kalyn, Michael R.

doi:10.1145/2513383.2513436

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“…Previous studies suggest that accessible games for institutionalized older adults can be created by accounting for age-related changes [10,11]; while these considerations remain valid in the context of our work, results suggest that this is only a first step toward the successful deployment of games in long-term care, and that a more comprehensive approach to development is necessary. Age-related changes and impairments do not only influence whether basic gameplay is accessible, but how older adults see themselves in the gaming context, how they perceive the participation of others, and how they respond to in-game challenge.…”

Section: Designing For Older Adults In Residential Carementioning

confidence: 51%

“…Their results show that games may bring older adults together, but also note that "some older adults are shy in groups". Gerling et al [10,11] investigate the design of motion-based game interfaces for older adults in residential care, focusing on the individual player experience of institutionalized older adults, as well as general considerations regarding game accessibility.…”

Section: Designing Games For Older Adultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Long-Term Use of Motion-Based Video Games in Care Home Settings

Gerling

Mandryk

Linehan

2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Recent research suggests that motion-based video games have the potential to provide both mental and physical stimulation for older adults in residential care. However, little research has explored the practical challenges and opportunities that arise from integrating these games within existing schedules of activities in these contexts. In our work, we report on a qualitative enquiry that was conducted over a three month period at two long-term care facilities. Findings suggest that older adults enjoyed playing video games, and that games can be a valuable means of reintroducing challenge in late life, but that the impact of agerelated changes and impairment can influence people's ability to engage with games in a group setting. We outline core challenges in the design for care context and discuss implications of our work regarding the suitability of games as a self-directed leisure activity.

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Section: Designing For Older Adults In Residential Carementioning

confidence: 51%

Section: Designing Games For Older Adultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Long-Term Use of Motion-Based Video Games in Care Home Settings

Gerling

Mandryk

Linehan

2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Keep patient motivated to continue the rehabilitation exercise must be considered by motion-based game interaction wheelchair. Different ages of user need different type of games [74]. As age increased, patient's ability will decrease due to reduction of muscle mass, stamina and strength [75].…”

Section: Challenge In Developing Wheelchairmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review on Electric Wheelchair Innovation to Ease Mobility and As a Rehabilitation Tool for Spinal Cord Impairment Patient

Sidik¹,

Ghani²,

Ishak³

et al. 2018

IJET

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Wheelchair is used to assist disability people to do daily activities in order to reduce depending on other to continue their living. Adding some device into it, wheelchair can be not only help in mobilization, it can be rehabilitation device to the user. This review paper focus modifications done onto market available wheelchair. Variety types of sensor used to improve the mobility of electric wheelchair and to make it as a rehabilitation tools at the same time. Keywords-Instrumented wheelchair, spinal cord injury, sensors 1. INTRODUCTION For those who are having impairment for lower and upper extremity, wheelchair is one of their ways to move around. These kind of people, tend to be more depressed comparing those who are healthy and wheelchair provide them mobility to ease their day. On the other hands, their depression can be reduced a little bit by moving around. In United States alone, more than 200,000 use wheelchair as their primary means of mobility[1]. The demand for electric wheelchair increasing since the price been reduced and user switching from manual to powered wheelchair[2]. Especially for patient that suffer in higher level of impairment to ease their daily life[3]. Electric wheelchair can be control by a joystick to move forward, backward, turn left and right. But for some patient with severe motor-disabilities, they can't hold the joystick properly to move around on their wheelchair. Research to improve electric wheelchair started since 30 years ago to make sure all type of severe motor impairments patient has a wheelchair that can be used by them without bring any harm. Harm can be happened when they miss control the joystick and possibility to hit obstacle and wall. For a cerebral palsy or cognitive impairment, high-level spinal cord injury, and quadriplegia patient, they can't control amount of force to push the joystick and over pushing will caused the wheelchair accelerate instantly. Control algorithm and control techniques should be developed in order to enhance the riding safety for them. Sensors are neededto detect and measure the object and send the signal to processor to be calculated based on algorithm set before. Control techniques is normally for a pediatrics to teach on how to control their wheelchair to move from point A to point B.Basically the objective to modify available electric wheelchair are to ease the mobility by assist the navigation and as rehabilitation tools. This review paper is discussing about type of sensors installedand how it is work to navigate the movement of electric wheelchair and modification to make it as a rehabilitation tool. This paper is written to gather as much as possible innovation on electric wheelchair for spinal cord impairment patients. Lots of innovation has been done to cater the wheelchair movement control problem faced by the patients. Normal wheelchair can't be control easily because of they has problem to move their arm and finger especially tocontrol the joystick. Different sensors and different algorithm used by many researcher but the...

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“…A large group of institutionalized older adults uses wheelchairs (Shields 2004), and results of our second study show that this may create additional challenges for full-body motion-based input on two levels. First, input technologies need to be able to accomodate persons using wheelchairs; second, control schemes need to be adapted to be accessible to persons using wheelchairs, for instance, by integrating wheelchair movements into the interaction process (Gerling, Kalyn and Mandryk 2013). On a basic level, the successful integration of motion-based input technologies for older adults depends on a careful analysis of the needs of the target audience.…”

Section: Designing Motion-based Interaction For Heterogeneous Audiencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Motion-Based Game Interaction for Older Adults / Bewegungsbasierte Spielinteraktion für Senioren

Gerling¹

2013

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Zusammenfassung Bewegungsbasierte Videospiele für Senioren erfreuen sich immer größerer Beliebtheit, da sie eine geeignete Möglichkeit darstellen, ältere Menschen zu körperlicher Aktivität zu motivieren. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es wichtig zu gewährleisten, dass bewegungsbasierte Eingabegeräte für entsprechende Spiele leicht zugänglich sind, und dass Eingabeparadigmen kein Verletzungsrisiko für ältere Nutzer darstellen. Dieser Artikel gibt einen Überblick über traditionelle und bewegungsbasierte Spielinteraktion für Senioren, und zeigt Möglichkeiten auf, wie es gebrechlichen älteren Menschen ermöglicht werden kann, ihren Körper in den Interaktionsprozess einzubringen. Weiterhin fasst dieser Artikel potentielle Anwendungsfälle für bewegungsbasierte Spielinteraktion für Senioren zusammen.

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Wheelchair-based game design for older adults

Cited by 34 publications

References 26 publications

Long-Term Use of Motion-Based Video Games in Care Home Settings

Long-Term Use of Motion-Based Video Games in Care Home Settings

A Review on Electric Wheelchair Innovation to Ease Mobility and As a Rehabilitation Tool for Spinal Cord Impairment Patient

Motion-Based Game Interaction for Older Adults / Bewegungsbasierte Spielinteraktion für Senioren

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