A serious games framework for health rehabilitation

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2014

Authors

rego, pa (Author) Other; moreira, pm (Author) Other; reis, lp (Author) FCUP

Journal

Title: International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics

Vol. 9

Pages: 1-21

ISSN: 1555-3396

Publisher: IGI Global

Indexing

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Scopus - 9 Citations

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00A-2GV

DOI: 10.4018/ijhisi.2014070101

Abstract (EN): Serious Games is a field of research that has evolved substantially with valuable contributions to many application domains and areas. Patients often consider traditional rehabilitation approaches to be repetitive and boring, making it difficult for them to maintain their ongoing interest and to assure the completion of the treatment program. This paper reviews Serious Games and the natural and multimodal user interfaces for the health rehabilitation domain. Specifically, it details a framework for the development of Serious Games that integrates a rich set of features that can be used to improve the designed games with direct benefits to the rehabilitation process. Highlighted features include natural and multimodal interaction, social skills (collaboration and competitiveness) and progress monitoring. Due to the rich set of features supported by the framework, the games' rehabilitation efficacy can be enhanced primarily from an increase in the patient's motivation when exercising the rehabilitation tasks. Copyright © 2014, IGI Global.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 21