Paths for Cognitive Rehabilitation: From Reality to Educational Software, to Serious Games, to Reality Again

2014 ◽  
pp. 172-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Curatelli ◽  
Chiara Martinengo ◽  
Francesco Bellotti ◽  
Riccardo Berta
Keyword(s):  
Serious Games ◽  
Cognitive Rehabilitation ◽  
Educational Software

Design of customized VR serious games for the cognitive rehabilitation of retrograde amnesia after brain stroke

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Daniel Lanzoni ◽  
Andrea Vitali ◽  
Daniele Regazzoni ◽  
Caterina Rizzi
Keyword(s):  
Retrograde Amnesia ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Cognitive Rehabilitation ◽  
Ecological Validity ◽  
Memory Loss ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Patient Specific ◽  
Specific Test ◽  
Real Objects ◽  
Brain Stroke

Abstract The paper presents a software platform to design serious games for the rehabilitation of severe memory loss by means of Virtual Reality (VR). In particular, the focus is on retrograde amnesia, a condition affecting patient's quality of life usually after brain stroke. At present, the standard rehabilitation process includes showing pictures of patient's familiar environments to help recovering the memory. The proposed rehabilitation platform aims at developing patient-specific serious games for memory loss starting from the 3D scanning acquisition of familiar environments. The Occipital Structure Sensor and the Skanect application have been used for the virtualization of the real objects and the environment. A modular procedure has been designed to interface the virtual objects of each acquired environment with the modules of the game-logic developed with Unity. In addition, the developed solution makes available a set of software modules for the patient's monitoring and the data management to automatically generate medical reports, which can be easily connected to each new patient-specific serious game. A specific test has been performed to assess the main features of the VR platform and its usability. A positive feedback has been given by the involved medical personnel, who highlighted the importance of objective data to improve the ecological validity of the cognitive rehabilitation for retrograde amnesia.

An Overview of Serious Games in Cognitive Rehabilitation

2016 ◽  
pp. 744-753
Author(s):  
Jorge Brandão ◽  
Pedro Cunha ◽  
Vitor Hugo Carvalho ◽  
Filomena O. Soares
Keyword(s):  
Serious Games ◽  
Cognitive Rehabilitation

scholarly journals VR Serious Games for Neuro-cognitive Rehabilitation of Patients with Severe Memory Loss

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 1233-1246
Author(s):  
Andrea Vitali ◽  
Daniele Regazzoni ◽  
Caterina Rizzi ◽  
Andrea Spajani
Keyword(s):  
Serious Games ◽  
Cognitive Rehabilitation ◽  
Memory Loss

scholarly journals The impact of serious games in mathematics fluency: A study in Primary Education

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2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (69) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Fraga-Varela ◽  
Esther Vila-Couñago ◽  
Esther Martínez-Piñeiro
Keyword(s):  
Primary Education ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Educational Software ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
General Level ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Similar Time ◽  
Mathematics Fluency ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Impact

In recent years there has been a renewal of educational software encouraged by the incorporation of specific designs based on serious games. Previous studies on their use do not provide conclusive data on the advancement in learning, both at a general level and in specific contents. The main objective of this work is to study the impact of the use of serious games in primary education classrooms, specifically on mathematics fluency, taking into account gamification variables and teaching experience. A quasi-experimental study was carried out with a pretest-posttest design, without a control group and with several experimental groups, involving 284 students from the first to the fourth grade. The results show a significant improvement in mathematics fluency with the use of serious games in the different grades and classroom groups studied. The gamification strategy promotes even greater progress over the classes where it has not been implemented. There is a similar time of use of serious games by both novice and experienced teachers, with better results in mathematics fluency in the case of the second group. It also shows the relationship between the results obtained and the school grades of the students. The findings point to the potential of using serious games designed specifically for school environments and challenge previous work on generational barriers in teachers. En estos últimos años ha habido una renovación del software educativo propiciada por la incorporación de diseños específicos basados en juegos serios. Los estudios previos sobre su uso no ofrecen datos concluyentes sobre el avance en el aprendizaje, tanto a nivel general como de contenidos específicos. El objetivo principal del presente trabajo es conocer el impacto del uso de juegos serios en las aulas de educación primaria, concretamente en la fluidez matemática del alumnado, atendiendo a variables de gamificación y experiencia docente. Se lleva a cabo un estudio cuasi-experimental con pretest-postest, sin grupo control y con varios grupos experimentales, en el que participan 284 estudiantes de primero a cuarto curso. Los resultados muestran una mejora significativa de la fluidez matemática con el uso de juegos serios en los distintos cursos y grupos-aula estudiados. La estrategia de gamificación promueve un progreso aún mayor respecto a las aulas en las que no se ha implementado. Se observa un tiempo de uso similar de los juegos serios por parte de profesores noveles y experimentados, con mejores resultados en fluidez matemática en el caso de los segundos. También se muestra la relación existente entre los resultados obtenidos y las calificaciones del alumnado. Las conclusiones señalan el potencial del uso de juegos serios diseñados específicamente para entornos escolares y cuestionan trabajos previos sobre las barreras generacionales en el profesorado.

scholarly journals A Serious Games Platform for Cognitive Rehabilitation with Preliminary Evaluation

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Alexandra Rego ◽  
Rui Rocha ◽  
Brígida Mónica Faria ◽  
Luís Paulo Reis ◽  
Pedro Miguel Moreira
Keyword(s):  
Serious Games ◽  
Cognitive Rehabilitation ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation

scholarly journals Neuro-cognitive Rehabilitation: Design of VR Serious Games for Patients with Severe Memory Loss

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Vitali ◽  
Daniele Regazzoni ◽  
Caterina Rizzi ◽  
Andrea Spajani
Keyword(s):  
Serious Games ◽  
Cognitive Rehabilitation ◽  
Memory Loss
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