3D virtual environments for cybertherapy: a psychosocial approach to effective usability

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Galimberti ◽  
Gloria Belloni ◽  
Maddalena Grassi ◽  
Alberto Cattaneo ◽  
Valentina Manias ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environments ◽  
3D Virtual Environments

Interactive Graphical Design of 3D Serious Neurorehabilitation Games

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Moya ◽  
Dani Tost ◽  
Sergi Grau
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Task Environment ◽  
System Testing ◽  
3D Game ◽  
Fully Automatic ◽  
Graphical Design ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
3D Virtual Environments ◽  
Rehabilitation Tasks

We describe a graphical narrative editor that we have developed for the design of serious games for cognitive neurorehabilitation. The system is addressed to neuropsychologists. It is aimed at providing them an easy, user-friendly, and fast way of specifying the therapeutical contents of the rehabilitation tasks that constitute the serious games. The editor takes as input a description of the virtual task environment and the actions allowed inside. Therapists use it to describe the actions that they expect patients to do in order to fulfill the goals of the task and the behavior of the game if patients do not reach their goals. The output of the system is a complete description of the task logic. We have designed a 3D game platform that provides to the editor a description the 3D virtual environments, and that translates the task description created in the editor into the task logic. The main advantage of the system is that it is fully automatic, it allows therapists to interactively design the tasks and immediately validate them by realizing it virtually. We describe the design of the two applications and present the results of system testing.

Virtual Explorer: creating interactive 3D virtual environments for education

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin L. Dean ◽  
Xylar S. Asay-Davis ◽  
Evan M. Finn ◽  
Jeremy A. Friesner ◽  
Bret J. Naylor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Interactive 3D ◽  
3D Virtual Environments

scholarly journals Proposal and evaluation of a tablet-based tool for 3D virtual environments

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Daniel Medeiros ◽  
Felipe Carvalho ◽  
Lucas Teixeira ◽  
Priscilla Braz ◽  
Alberto Raposo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Specific Interaction ◽  
System Control ◽  
3D Interaction ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Manipulation System ◽  
Study Case ◽  
Immersive Environment ◽  
3D Virtual Environments

The introduction of embedded sensors in smartphones and tablets allowed the use of these devices to interact with virtual environments. These devices also have the possibility of including additional information and performing naturally non-immersive tasks. This work presents a 3D interaction tablet-based tool, which allows the aggregation of all major 3D interaction tasks, such as navigation, selection, manipulation, system control and symbolic input. This tool is for generalpurpose systems, as well as, engineering applications. Generally this kind of application uses specific interaction devices with four or more degrees of freedom and a common keyboard and mouse for tasks that are naturally non-immersive, such as symbolic input (e.g., text or number input). This article proposes a new tablet-based device that can perform all these major tasks in an immersive environment. It also presents a study case of the use of the device and some user tests.

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