9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Research Article

Tracking rehabilitative progress with Fitts and starts Performance measures in a tablet game for hemi-spatial neglect patients.

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2015.259066,
        author={Hendrik Knoche and Kasper Hald and Danny Tamsen and Lars Holm Jespersen},
        title={Tracking rehabilitative progress with Fitts and starts Performance measures in a tablet game for hemi-spatial neglect patients.},
        proceedings={9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH},
        year={2015},
        month={8},
        keywords={neglect self-rehabilitation fitts’ law game },
        doi={10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2015.259066}
    }
    
  • Hendrik Knoche
    Kasper Hald
    Danny Tamsen
    Lars Holm Jespersen
    Year: 2015
    Tracking rehabilitative progress with Fitts and starts Performance measures in a tablet game for hemi-spatial neglect patients.
    PERVASIVEHEALTH
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2015.259066
Hendrik Knoche1,*, Kasper Hald1, Danny Tamsen1, Lars Holm Jespersen1
  • 1: Aalborg University
*Contact email: hk@create.aau.dk

Abstract

We designed a tablet game to diagnose, train, and assess the rehabilitative progress of hemi-spatial neglect patients. We found that a set of parameters from fitting Fitts’ law to hit delays in a whack-a-mole game can be used to identify neglect patients due to the asymmetry between performance on the left and right hand sides of the screen. Performance improvements were evident in in-game metrics as well as to the patients through summary screens.