Serious Games

 

 

 

 

A manual-procedural activities (MPA) involves following the steps of a given workflow for manipulating the physical world. Examples include manual assembly, repair and maintenance, different crafts, cooking, etc. To learn an MPA the trainee needs to master both the steps of the procedure and the hand skills required for manipulating physical objects and the using the tools. TUMA: An Intelligent Tutoring System for Manual-Procedural Activities supports trainees in learning an MPA. 

Multiple topics available in context of the TUMA project. For details of the topics please see my chair web page. 

A framework for recognizing symbols (characters, numbers) drawn on touch devices and transmitting them wirelessly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In our research we propose a portfolio of serious games for home-based stroke rehabilitation. The game approach enriches a patient’s training experience and thus establishes a higher level of compliance to prescribed exercises, while maintaining a supportive training environment as found in common therapy sessions. Our system monitors the patient’s performance while exercising and provides clinicians with an interface to personalize the training for their patients. In order to achieve an increased compliance to home-based exercising, we provide a collection of mini games based on rehabilitation exercises used in conventional physical therapy. All games are part of a joint storyline that encourages a patient to accomplish tasks on a treasure island. Playable games change over time to adapt to the patient’s state of rehabilitation and drive diversification. This research was inspired by a previous project at Carnegie Mellon University that provides a non-gamified way of self-governed exercising. While this prototype was a major breakthrough in the domain of computer-aided rehabilitation, patients experienced difficulties using the complex interface resulting in a lack of compliance and motivation to use the system. However, to offer a non-gamified alternative of exercising to our solution, the previous system was integrated as an independent component, giving patients the choice between the two systems.