Cognitive Rehabilitation through Serious Games

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Eloisa Vargiu Barcelona Digital Technology Center Cognitive Rehabilitation through Serious Games

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In BackHome we focus on the definition and provision of cognitive rehabilitation tasks to people with neurological disorders going back to home after a discharge. Those tasks will be executed through a Brain-Neural Computer Interface system and will consist of desktop-based serious games. By now, two games have been implemented: the “memory cards” game, aimed at improving memory skills, and the “find a category” game, aimed at improving attention-and-perception skills. The implemented games are currently under testing at the end-users facilities, in Belfast and Wüurzburg.

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Eloisa VargiuBarcelona Digital

Technology Center

Cognitive Rehabilitationthrough Serious Games

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Outline1. BackHome

2. Cognitive Rehabilitation in BackHome

3. Serious Games

4. Closing Remarks

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The Project BackHome is the first European research project

aimed at delivering the ambitious, but critical, step to bring BNCI systems to mainstream markets

The Objectives To study the transition from the

hospital to the home To learn how different BNCIs and

other assistive technologies work together

To reduce the cost and hassle of the transition from the hospital to the home

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BackHome is aimed at… …producing applied results, developing

o new and better integrated practical electrode systems

o friendlier and more flexible BNCI softwareo better telemonitoring and home support tools

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Cognitive Rehabilitation in BackHome Therapists

o Plano Scheduleo Telemonitoro Personalizethe prescription of cognitiverehabilitation tasks

Cognitive rehabilitation tasks are given in form of serious games

The user performs those tasks inside her therapeutic range

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Cognitive Rehabilitation in BackHome

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Cognitive Rehabilitation – Perception

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Cognitive Rehabilitation – Perception Daily-life activities

o Level 1: Teeth brushing (6 actions)o Level 2: Frying an egg (8 actions)o Level 3: Buying the bread (10 actions)

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Cognitive Rehabilitation – Attention & Concentration

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Find a categoryo Level 1: High level categories (e.g., Plant)o Level 2: More specific categories (e.g., Kitchen)o Level 3: Abstract categories (e.g., Something that walks)

Cognitive Rehabilitation – Attention & Concentration

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Cognitive Rehabilitation – Memory

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Memory cardso Level 1: Shapes (8 cards)o Level 2: Fruits (12 cards)o Level 3: Animals (20 cards)

Cognitive Rehabilitation – Memory

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A user centered approach has been adopted

The find-a-category game and the memory-cards game have been validated by a therapist focus group and are currently under testing by people with trauma in Belfast

The daily-life-activities game will be validated by a therapist focus group this month in Belfast

The overall approach has been fully integrated in the overall BackHome system

Closing Remarks

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Thanks for your

attention!

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