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Deploying Serious Games for Cognitive Rehabilitation

Version 1 : Received: 17 May 2022 / Approved: 18 May 2022 / Online: 18 May 2022 (10:46:25 CEST)

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Perri, D.; Simonetti, M.; Gervasi, O. Deploying Serious Games for Cognitive Rehabilitation. Computers 2022, 11, 103. Perri, D.; Simonetti, M.; Gervasi, O. Deploying Serious Games for Cognitive Rehabilitation. Computers 2022, 11, 103.

Abstract

The use of games for non-ludic purposes, the serious games, is an interesting branch of science that has shown important results. With the advent of the pandemic that has made access to rehabilitation centres more problematic for patients with cognitive rehabilitation needs, the importance of being able to exercise these patients safely in their own homes has emerged strongly. Many studies show that immediate action and appropriate, specific rehabilitation can guarantee satisfactory results. Appropriate therapy is based on key factors to be taken into account such as frequency, intensity and specificity of the exercises. The aim of our work is to define a pathway for the creation of open source digital products that can allow access in any moment to a virtual environment through which patients who have suffered limitations in their cognitive abilities can exercise and recover all or part of these abilities in the shortest possible time. In view of the spread of IoT devices capable of easily monitoring various vital parameters, we propose with our system a low-cost and very efficient solution that can provide the doctor and therapist not only with quantitative data on the exercises performed (number and type of exercises, time spent, results obtained) but also an overview of vital parameters, so as to observe any states of agitation or excessive effort in completing the exercise.

Keywords

Virtual Reality; Augmented Reality; Serious Games; IoT; Web App; Blender; Unity3D

Subject

Computer Science and Mathematics, Information Systems

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