HelpMe!: A Serious Game for Rehabilitation of Children Affected by CVI Matteo Ciman 1 , Ombretta Gaggi 1,2 , Laura Nota 2,3 , Luisa Pinello 2,4 , Nicola Riparelli 1 and Teresa Maria Sgaramella 2,3 1 Dept. Of Mathematics, Univ. of Padua, Italy 2 Dept. of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, Univ. of Padua, Italy 3 University Center for Research and Services on Disability, Rehabilitation and Inclusion, Univ. of Padua, Italy 4 Pediatric Low Vision Center of the Veneto Region, Dept. of Women’s and Children’s Healths, Univ. of Padua, Italy WEBIST 2013 Aachen, Germany 8 – 10 May, 2013 Aachen, 09/05/2013
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HelpMe!: A Serious Game for Rehabilitation of
Children Affected by CVIMatteo Ciman1, Ombretta Gaggi1,2, Laura Nota2,3, Luisa Pinello2,4, Nicola Riparelli1 and
Teresa Maria Sgaramella2,3
1Dept. Of Mathematics, Univ. of Padua, Italy2Dept. of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, Univ. of Padua, Italy3University Center for Research and Services on Disability, Rehabilitation and Inclusion, Univ. of Padua, Italy4Pediatric Low Vision Center of the Veneto Region, Dept. of Women’s and Children’s Healths, Univ. of Padua, Italy
WEBIST 2013Aachen, Germany8 – 10 May, 2013Aachen, 09/05/2013
Background - CVIA disability that entails a visual deficit, due to a brain damageChildren characteristics: they need to move the object to be able to see it they have a reduced ocular field they are not able to watch and touch at the same
time
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The Problem
Patients collaboration during tests
Predefined exercises for all the children, despite their differences (Malkowicz et al., 2006)
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The Goal
To design a system designed for: Doctors: data and objective analysis (eye tracker
system)
Children: provide fun and avoid drop-out-from-therapy
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Serious games
The Right Direction Children “Digital Native Speaker”
Good responses with simple applications not build for children with disabilities
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Game Description
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• Target elements and distractors elements
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System Features
Portable
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System Features
Portable Robust
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System Features
Portable Robust Customizable
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System Architecture - 1
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System Architecture - 2
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Eye-tracking Software Modified version of the open source project ITU
Gaze Tracker from the University of Copenhagen
Based on a Thorlab camera and infrared light sources
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Communication
HTML5 WebSocket API
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Doctor Interface - 1
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Doctor Interface - 2
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Portability
v 14.0 v. 11.0 v. 5.0 v. 12.0
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Synchronization We need to synchronize the start time of the
serious game and the eye-tracking software to provide correct data
Server converts start time for the two devicesti(t) = ait + bi
Packets exchange to determine ai and bi
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Conclusions HelpMe! is a serious games for patients and
doctors
We made some test only with doctors and children not affected by CVI
Future works will be devoted to introduce an evaluation of data accuracy and self adaptation of the game
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HelpMe!: A Serious Game for Rehabilitation of
Children Affected by CVIMatteo Ciman1, Ombretta Gaggi1,2, Laura Nota2,3, Luisa Pinello2,4, Nicola Riparelli1 and