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Serious Games for the Rehabilitation of Disabled People: Results of a Multilingual Survey

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The paper reports the results of an original mixed-methods survey on the experiences and attitudes of disabled people to digital games in rehabilitation. Serious games are very widely used, but there is currently no research from the perspective of disabled people on their use in rehabilitation. A majority of participants were found to consider games in rehabilitation useful or very useful, with particular interest in games with a camera and sensors. Some statistically significant differences were found between the experiences and attitudes of blind and other disabled people and under and over 40s, but the results were found to be male-female gender independent. Several theories of technology use were applied to interpret the findings. The results were used to provide recommendations for the development and implementation of serious games in rehabilitation and suggestions for further work.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank everyone who completed a questionnaire or helped distribute them. We are very grateful for their assistance. Ethical Approval was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Glasgow. There are no conflicts of interest. An earlier version of the paper was published as Serious Games for the Rehabilitation of Disabled People in Rehab 2016 Workshop, ACM Digital Library.

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  1. Biomedical Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8LT, Scotland

    Marion Hersh

  2. ISTI – CNR, Via G. Moruzzi, 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Barbara Leporini

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  1. King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Habib M. Fardoun

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Appendix 1 Section C The Use of Games for Rehabilitation

Appendix 1 Section C The Use of Games for Rehabilitation

Questions 11–15 are for people who use games in rehabilitation. Question 18 is for those who do not. Questions 17–32 are for everyone.

  1. 11.

    What digital games do you use?

    1. a.

      In general

    2. b.

      In rehabilitation

  2. 12.

    What type of rehabilitation do you use these games for?

  3. 13.

    Please describe briefly your use of these games in rehabilitation

  4. 14.

    How often would use typically use digital games during a programme of rehabilitation?

  • More than 4 hours a day___

  • 2–4 hours a day___

  • Once 1 day___

  • 2 or 3 times a week___

  • Once a week___

  • Once a month___

  • It depends___

  • Other please specify ______

  1. 15.

    Please comment on your use of digital games, particularly in rehabilitation

  2. 16.

    If you do not use or rarely use digital games either on computer or smart phone/table why is this? (please indicate all that hold)

  • I do not like games or have not found any digital games I like____

  • I have not participated in rehabilitation____

  • I did not know that games were available for rehabilitation____

  • I am not aware of suitable games____

  • I do not think that they would be useful for me____

  • I do not find digital games accessible____

  • Other please specify _______________

  1. 17.

    Do you think that digital games could be useful to support your rehabilitation or the rehabilitation of other people with similar disabilities?

    • Not at all useful___

    • Not useful___

    • Neither useful nor not useful___

    • Useful___

    • Very useful___

  2. 18.

    Please comment on your reply to the previous question

  3. 19.

    For what age groups do you think digital games could be useful in rehabilitation? (please indicate all that hold)

    • For preschool children____

    • For children from 6 to 12 years____

    • For teenagers____

    • For young adults (18–30 years)____

    • For adults (31–70 years)____

    • For older people (over 70 years)____

  4. 20.

    Please comment on your replies to the previous question

  5. 21.

    Do you think that digital games with a camera or other sensors able to detect movement would be useful in your rehabilitation or that of people with similar disabilities?

    • Not at all useful___

    • Not useful___

    • Neither useful nor not useful___

    • Useful___

    • Very useful___

  6. 22.

    Please comment on your replies to the previous question.

  7. 23.

    What activities could you or other disabled people usefully practice or carry out with the aid of a game with sensors and cameras?

  8. 24.

    Please comment on your reply to the previous question.

  9. 25–30.

    Indicate from 1 (not at all useful) to 5 (very useful) how useful you consider X as a way for a digital game to give you information. 25 vibration; 26 pressure or tapping; 27 other tactile information; 28 speech; 29 sound; 30 other types of information.

  10. 31.

    Please comment on your replies to questions 25–30.

  11. 32.

    Please give further comments and suggestions for the use of digital games to support rehabilitation and/or education.

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Hersh, M., Leporini, B. (2019). Serious Games for the Rehabilitation of Disabled People: Results of a Multilingual Survey. In: Fardoun, H., Hassan, A., de la Guía, M. (eds) New Technologies to Improve Patient Rehabilitation. REHAB 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1002. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16785-1_8

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