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Virtual Reality Games for Rehabilitation

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Editors:
  1. Eva Brooks

    1. Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

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  2. David J. Brown

    1. Department of Computer Science School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK

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  • Discusses games for rehabilitation of stroke, memory loss, addictive disorders, learning disabilities
  • Discusses combining rehabilitation games with neuromodulation and biofeedback
  • Includes numerous case studies illustrating application of VR games to specific health disorders?

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Games for Stroke Rehabilitation: An Overview

    • Pratik Vyas, Matthew C. Harris, David J. Brown, Luke Shires
    Pages 1-24

  3. A Framework for Designing Tabletop Games in Group-Based Motor Rehabilitation

    • Jonathan Duckworth, Nick Mumford, Jessica D. Bayliss, Peter H. Wilson
    Pages 25-49

  4. The Role of VR Simulation and Game Technology in the Understanding and Treatment of Visual Impairments

    • James Lewis
    Pages 51-74

  5. Methodology for the Co-design of Shared VR Environments with Adults with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities Using the Meta Quest

    • Matthew C. Harris, Pratik Vyas, James Lewis, David J. Brown, David Stewart, Penny Standen
    Pages 75-94

  6. Amplifying Ability: Engaging Young People with Autism Spectrum Disorders Through Gesture, Movement and Sound Technologies

    • Wendy Keay-Bright
    Pages 95-127

  7. Investigating the Effectiveness of Paper-Based and Computer-Presented Social Stories for Children with Autism Spectrum Conditions in an Autism-Specific Special School

    • Clara Nevin, Nigel Newbutt
    Pages 129-146

  8. A Colour-Coded Analysis of Movement Dynamics Associated to Potentials of Motion-Based Commercial Games to Supplement Training of Patients Diagnosed with Fibromyalgia Syndrome

    • Anthony Lewis Brooks, Eva Brooks
    Pages 147-167

  9. The Design, Development, and Evaluation of an Accessible Serious Gaming System for Children with Cerebral Palsy

    • David A. Hobbs, Brett G. Wilkinson, Max B. Hughes, Alexander (Sandy) W. Walker, Remo (Ray) N. Russo, Susan L. Hillier et al.
    Pages 169-189

  10. Designing a General Open Authorable Digital Ecosystem for Educational Games to Support Special Learning Needs

    • Nikolas Vidakis, Eirini Christinaki, Efthymios Syntychakis, Georgios Triantafyllidis
    Pages 191-208

  11. How Does the Alteration of an Avatar’s Proportions Affect Experience and Performance When Controlling It?

    • Mark Palmer, Sophie Pink, James Smith
    Pages 209-230

  12. Videogames for Players with Visual Disabilities

    • Jaime Sánchez
    Pages 231-268

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 269-270
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About this book

This volume focuses on games to manage and facilitate rehabilitation. It emphasizes user practice, attitudes, and experience, and their changing place within developing rehabilitation frameworks. It looks at how users have adopted, integrated, and innovated with games to facilitate rehabilitation. Topics include game technology, game design and accessibility, web-based technologies vs pervasive and mobile technologies, social and collaborative aspects, and rehabilitative outcome. Games for rehabilitation are gaining interest from different communities such as medicine, psychology, and rehabilitation. A distinction can be made between games specifically made for rehabilitative purposes and games made for the general public but that are used in rehabilitation as well. Games have allowed the building of new/complementary forms for rehabilitation and offered new options to produce rehabilitative activities and experiences.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Eva Brooks

  • Department of Computer Science School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK

    David J. Brown

About the editors

Eva Brooks, Ph.D., is Professor of IT-based Design, Learning and Innovation, and Director of the research laboratory Xlab – Design, Learning, Innovation at Aalborg University, Denmark and Visiting Professor at Halmstad University, Sweden. She is founder and steering co-chair of the EAI International Conference of Design, Learning & Innovation. Her research has a participatory design focus on social interaction and the use of digital technologies including their implications on play and learning in different learning practices. She has been leading several national and international projects in the area of her research interest. Currently, she is leading a Nordic project on Computational Play in Early Childhood Education.


David Brown, Ph.D., is Professor of Interactive Systems for Social Inclusion at Nottingham Trent University and Director of the Computing and Informatics Research Centre and Research Group Leader for Interactive Systems. Heis EU Project Coordinator for several projects concerning accessible game-based learning and multimodal adaptive learning systems for the education and rehabilitation of people with disabilities. Dr. Brown is a member of the International Steering Committee of the International Conference of Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technology (ICDVRAT) and Associate Editor for Frontiers: Virtual Reality in Medicine. 

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