{"id":61013,"date":"2019-05-16T13:55:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T11:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/?p=61013"},"modified":"2019-06-17T12:51:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T10:51:35","slug":"the-urv-coordinates-a-project-to-design-interactive-therapeutic-games-for-people-with-cerebral-palsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/the-urv-coordinates-a-project-to-design-interactive-therapeutic-games-for-people-with-cerebral-palsy\/","title":{"rendered":"The URV coordinates a project to design interactive therapeutic games for people with cerebral palsy"},"content":{"rendered":"

GABLE \u201cGAmification for a Better LifE\u201d, is the name of the project, which aims to develop a social platform to improve the lives of people with cerebral palsy. It is a European project that began in 2016 and is coordinated by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili through the Robotics and Intelligent Vision research group.<\/p>\n

The platform is a continuation of the research group\u2019s previous work and updates it with emerging gaming technologies such as augmented reality. At the same time, the researchers are introducing machine learning in order to personalize games for each player; that is, the games are designed to evolve to meet a specific player\u2019s needs by adjusting the level of difficulty on the basis of the player\u2019s responses. Furthermore, it offers mechanisms that enable carers to adequately monitor a patient\u2019s results and thus determine their progress and evolution.<\/p>\n

In addition to monitoring improvements in the player\u2019s balance and mobility, the project aims to strengthen relations among patients with cerebral palsy by developing technologies that enable various players around the world to play together\u00a0at the same time and thus \u201cstrengthen their communications skills through interactions\u201d explained URV professor Dom\u00e8nec Puig, the project\u2019s principal researcher and coordinator of the Robotics and Intelligent Vision research group of the URV\u2019s Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics.<\/p>\n

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The three researchers from the Robotics and Intelligent Vision research group. Right to left: Dom\u00e8nec Puig,\u00a0 Juli\u00e1n Cristiano and\u00a0Saddam Abdulrhman Hamed Abdulwahab.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The team are currently working with people who have a certain degree of mobility in order help them improve their physiological balance and movement control. The players stand on a balance board and play the game by making movements on the board. Designing these games is challenging particularly when the aim is to encourage social interactions among individuals with cerebral palsy and with mixed levels of ability.<\/p>\n

The games are being tested at the Baix Camp workshop in Reus and the Espiga Foundation in Vilafranca del Pened\u00e8s. For Joan Gim\u00e9nez, psychologist and coordinator of services at the Foundation, \u201ccombining leisure with physical improvements is of particularly interest\u201d. In order to participate, Gim\u00e9nez said, users must be able to move from the waist down and have a certain level of coordination. The evidence suggests that the improvements they obtain from physiotherapy combine with those provided by play. \u201cWe can see improvements in their ability to carry out their daily activities\u201d he stated, although the researchers are still in the data collection stage.<\/p>\n

GABLE is an innovation project funded by the European H2020 programme. It brings together five international members coordinated by the URV which also undertakes the intelligent analyses of the data. The project will finish at the end of 2019 and there are already viable prototypes. The group aims to continue its work in order to standardize the games for future commercialization and distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The games use a digital platform in order to improve aspects related to movement control and social interaction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":58964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[806,3462,818,195,786,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communicating-science","category-computer-engineering-mathematics","category-press-releases","category-research","category-school-engineering","category-science-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}