title: Eye-tracking and EMG supported 3D Virtual Reality - an integrated tool for perceptual and motor development of children with severe physical disabilities: a research concept.
abstract: Letting children with severe physical disabilities (like Tetraparesis spastica) to get relevant motional experiences of appropriate quality and quantity is now the greatest challenge for us in the field of neurorehabilitation. These motional experiences may establish many cognitive processes, but may also cause additional secondary cognitive dysfunctions such as disorders in body image, figure invariance, visual perception, auditory differentiation, concentration, analytic and synthetic ways of thinking, visual memory etc. Virtual Reality is a technology that provides a sense of presence in a real environment with the help of 3D pictures and animations formed in a computer environment and enable the person to interact with the objects in that environment. One of our biggest challenges is to find a well suited input device (hardware) to let the children with severe physical disabilities to interact with the computer. Based on our own experiences and a thorough literature review we have come to the conclusion that an effective combination of eye-tracking and EMG devices should work well.
authors: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Ergonomics and Psychology, Budapest, Hungary.
authors: Márk Ágoston
authors: MÁ
authors: Pulay
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D019988:Children with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D053483:Eye Movement Measurements; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D058765:Neurofeedback / Q000379:methods*; D012656:Self-Help Devices; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D063367:Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods