Play to Cure

Cognitive impairment that can be caused by brain disorders or aging affects quality of life by interfering with abilities to perform activities of daily living (ADL). For this reason, this study developed serious games for the purpose of rehabilitation and proposes an integrated management service model that can recommend the difficulty level of games and manage changes in serious results according to user’s cognitive function ability during rehabilitation.

The results support that the GuessWhat mobile game is a viable approach for efficacious treatment of autism and further support the possibility that the game can be used in natural settings to increase access to treatment when barriers to care exist.

There was evidence that the Monitoring Tool was able to detect differences in cognition between the children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorders.

This phenotypic characterization highlights the potential power of administering tools that integrate adaptive psychophysical mechanics into video-game-style mechanics to achieve robust, reliable measurements.