Player Modeling and Procedural Content Generation for WiiHabilitation

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Project description

  • Start date:
  • Sep 2009
  • End date:
  • Ongoing
  • Budget:
  • 100.000 DKK

    Enhancing the rehabilitation process at large is of paramount importance for any welfare society. As the demographic profile of Western countries changes, providing effective and efficient rehabilitation is a societal and economic necessity. The overall objective of the project is to investigate how game-based digital technology can be designed to install a stronger sense of continuity in the rehabilitation process as experienced by both the therapists and patients. The project relates to the emerging Wiihabilitation trend referring to the use of new more bodily-oriented off-the-shelf gaming technologies for rehabilitation purposes. Such technologies include Nintendo's Wii and Microsoft's upcoming Project Natal , both allowing control of games through body movements in physical space. The project however, goes beyond the immediate features of existing gaming technologies and investigates player modeling and procedural content generation for rehabilitation purposes. The pillars of this project are founded on an ongoing collaboration between the rehabilitation clinic at TÄrnby Sundhedscenter, the IT University of Copenhagen and the Copenhagen Game Collective.

    Partners

    Taarnby Rehabilitation Center

    Selected Publications

    • D. Dimovska,, P. Jarnfelt,, S. Selvig,, G. N. Yannakakis - Towards Procedural Level Generation for Rehabilitation
      In proceedings of ACM Foundations of Digital Games,Workshop on Procedural Content Generation
      , California, USA, 2010
      Pdf Bibtex
    • P. Jarnfelt, S. Selvig,, D. Dimovska - Towards tailoring player experience in physical wii games: a case study on relaxation
      In Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, volume 422 of ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
      pp. 328-331, 2009
      Pdf Bibtex

    Videos

    Media coverage

    Wii makes rehabilitation fun in front of flat screen (in Danish) 7 May, 2010