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

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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

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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

Teresa Maria Sgaramella2,3

{mciman, gaggi}@math.unipd.it

WEBIST 2013Aachen, Germany8 – 10 May, 2013

Aachen, 09/05/2013