HelpMe!: A Serious Game for Rehabilitation of Children Affected by CVI

Matteo Ciman, Laura Nota, Luisa Pinello, Nicola Riparelli, Ombretta Gaggi, Teresa Maria Sgaramella

2013

Abstract

CVI (Cerebral Visual Impairment) is the leading cause of visual impairment in the United States and the Western Europe. Due to the high number of different inabilities that children could have when affected by CVI, it is crucial for the rehabilitation process to start from a good assessment, especially at early ages. In this paper we present HelpMe!, a serious game to improve the rehabilitation process for these children with a system able to adapt the exercises to each particular child and to his/her improvements. The system integrates an eye tracker system to correctly measure the performances of the child and his/her capability to watch and touch a moving object at the same time.

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in Harvard Style

Ciman M., Pinello L., Sgaramella T., Gaggi O., Riparelli N. and Nota L. (2013). HelpMe!: A Serious Game for Rehabilitation of Children Affected by CVI . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8565-54-9, pages 257-262. DOI: 10.5220/0004371002570262


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist13,
author={Matteo Ciman and Luisa Pinello and Teresa Maria Sgaramella and Ombretta Gaggi and Nicola Riparelli and Laura Nota},
title={HelpMe!: A Serious Game for Rehabilitation of Children Affected by CVI},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2013},
pages={257-262},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004371002570262},
isbn={978-989-8565-54-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - HelpMe!: A Serious Game for Rehabilitation of Children Affected by CVI
SN - 978-989-8565-54-9
AU - Ciman M.
AU - Pinello L.
AU - Sgaramella T.
AU - Gaggi O.
AU - Riparelli N.
AU - Nota L.
PY - 2013
SP - 257
EP - 262
DO - 10.5220/0004371002570262