Interactive Graphical Design of 3D Serious Neurorehabilitation Games

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Moya ◽  
Dani Tost ◽  
Sergi Grau
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Task Environment ◽  
System Testing ◽  
3D Game ◽  
Fully Automatic ◽  
Graphical Design ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
3D Virtual Environments ◽  
Rehabilitation Tasks

We describe a graphical narrative editor that we have developed for the design of serious games for cognitive neurorehabilitation. The system is addressed to neuropsychologists. It is aimed at providing them an easy, user-friendly, and fast way of specifying the therapeutical contents of the rehabilitation tasks that constitute the serious games. The editor takes as input a description of the virtual task environment and the actions allowed inside. Therapists use it to describe the actions that they expect patients to do in order to fulfill the goals of the task and the behavior of the game if patients do not reach their goals. The output of the system is a complete description of the task logic. We have designed a 3D game platform that provides to the editor a description the 3D virtual environments, and that translates the task description created in the editor into the task logic. The main advantage of the system is that it is fully automatic, it allows therapists to interactively design the tasks and immediately validate them by realizing it virtually. We describe the design of the two applications and present the results of system testing.

scholarly journals Evaluating the Usability of Authoring Environments for Serious Games

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 553-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aad Slootmaker ◽  
Hans Hummel ◽  
Rob Koper
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Authoring Environment ◽  
Game Developers ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Practical Implications

Background. The EMERGO method and online platform enable the development and delivery of scenario-based serious games that foster students to acquire professional competence. One of the main goals of the platform is to provide a user-friendly authoring environment for creating virtual environments where students can perform authentic tasks. Aim. We present the findings of an in-depth qualitative case study of the platform’s authoring environment and compare our findings on usability with those found for comparable environments in literature. Method. We carried out semi-structured interviews, with two experienced game developers who have authored a game for higher education, and a literature review of comparable environments. Findings. The analysis shows that the usability of the authoring environment is problematic, especially regarding understandability and learnability, which is in line with findings of comparable environments. Other findings are that authoring is well integrated with the EMERGO method and that functionality and reliability of the authoring environment are valued. Practical implications. The lessons learned are presented in the form of general guidelines to improve the understandability and learnability of authoring environments for serious games.

scholarly journals Are 3D virtual environments better than 2D interfaces in serious games performance? An explorative study for the assessment of executive functions

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli ◽  
Carla de Juan Ripoll ◽  
Elena Parra ◽  
Mariano Alcañiz Raya
Keyword(s):  
Executive Functions ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Explorative Study ◽  
3D Virtual Environments ◽  
Better Than

scholarly journals OpenMaze: An Open-Source Toolbox for Creating Virtual Environment Experiments

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Alsbury-Nealy ◽  
Hongyu Wang ◽  
Cody Howarth ◽  
Alex Gordienko ◽  
Margaret Schlichting ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Ecological Validity ◽  
Input Devices ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Innovative Solution ◽  
3D Environments ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
3D Virtual Environments ◽  
Psychological Experiments

Incorporating 3D virtual environments into psychological experiments offers an innovative solution for balancing experimental control and ecological validity. Their flexible use, however, has been limited to those researchers with extensive coding experience because the field lacks accessible development tools. We created OpenMaze, an open-source toolbox for the Unity game engine, to overcome this barrier. OpenMaze offers researchers the ability to conduct a wide range of 3D spatial navigation experiment paradigms in fully customized 3D environments. Crucially, because all experiment configurations are defined in user-friendly JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) files, our toolbox allows even those with no prior coding experience to build bespoke tasks. OpenMaze is also compatible with a variety of input devices and operating systems, broadening its possible applications. To demonstrate its advantages, we review and contrast other available software options before guiding the reader through building an experiment in OpenMaze.

The Implications of 3D Virtual Environments on Employee Training and Development

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Taylor ◽  
Seung Youn (Yonnie) Chyung
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Employee Training ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
3D Virtual Environments

3D virtual environments for cybertherapy: a psychosocial approach to effective usability

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Galimberti ◽  
Gloria Belloni ◽  
Maddalena Grassi ◽  
Alberto Cattaneo ◽  
Valentina Manias ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environments ◽  
3D Virtual Environments

scholarly journals Towards a contemporary player learning in development framework for sports practitioners

2021 ◽  
pp. 174795412110023
Author(s):  
Mark O Sullivan ◽  
Carl T Woods ◽  
James Vaughan ◽  
Keith Davids
Keyword(s):  
Linear Process ◽  
Task Environment ◽  
Coach Education ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Learning Development ◽  
High Level ◽  
User Friendly

As it is appreciated that learning is a non-linear process – implying that coaching methodologies in sport should be accommodative – it is reasonable to suggest that player development pathways should also account for this non-linearity. A constraints-led approach (CLA), predicated on the theory of ecological dynamics, has been suggested as a viable framework for capturing the non-linearity of learning, development and performance in sport. The CLA articulates how skills emerge through the interaction of different constraints (task-environment-performer). However, despite its well-established theoretical roots, there are challenges to implementing it in practice. Accordingly, to help practitioners navigate such challenges, this paper proposes a user-friendly framework that demonstrates the benefits of a CLA. Specifically, to conceptualize the non-linear and individualized nature of learning, and how it can inform player development, we apply Adolph’s notion of learning IN development to explain the fundamental ideas of a CLA. We then exemplify a learning IN development framework, based on a CLA, brought to life in a high-level youth football organization. We contend that this framework can provide a novel approach for presenting the key ideas of a CLA and its powerful pedagogic concepts to practitioners at all levels, informing coach education programs, player development frameworks and learning environment designs in sport.

A Remote Synthetic Testbed For Human-Robot Teaming: An Iterative Design Process

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 781-785
Author(s):  
Margaret Wong ◽  
Akudasuo Ezenyilimba ◽  
Alexandra Wolff ◽  
Tyrell Anderson ◽  
Erin Chiou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Task Environment ◽  
Research Administration ◽  
Urban Search And Rescue ◽  
Pilot Studies ◽  
Iterative Design ◽  
Hazardous Environments ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Real Time Information

Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) missions often involve a need to complete tasks in hazardous environments. In such situations, human-robot teams (HRT) may be essential tools for future USAR missions. Transparency and explanation are two information exchange processes where transparency is real-time information exchange and explanation is not. For effective HRTs, certain levels of transparency and explanation must be met, but how can these modes of team communication be operationalized? During the COVID-19 pandemic, our approach to answering this question involved an iterative design process that factored in our research objectives as inputs and pilot studies with remote participants. Our final research testbed design resulted in converting an in-person task environment to a completely remote study and task environment. Changes to the study environment included: utilizing user-friendly video conferencing tools such as Zoom and a custom-built application for research administration tasks and improved modes of HRT communication that helped us avoid confounding our performance measures.

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