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A Diagnostic Tool on Time Perception of Children with ADHD

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ADHD is among the most common childhood developmental disorder which may affect the school achievements. Children with ADHD may show symptoms of time perception problems. Although ADHD is a clinical diagnosis with several approaches, no diagnostic tool has been designed to detect the symptoms of time perception problems in ADHD children. A computer game can be a powerful tool to be used as part of the psychological assessment and yield better accuracy in ADHD diagnosis. In this paper, we present our concept of a diagnostic tool on time perception for children with ADHD-symptoms.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Interactive and Cognitive Environments (ICE), which is funded by the EACEA Agency of the European Commission under EMJD ICE FPA n 2010-0012. We are also very grateful for the collaboration with Dr. Jos Hendriksen, Prof. Dr. Hans Vles, Prof. Dr. Bert Aldenkamp, and Janneke Peijnenborgh MSc. from Kempenhaeghe, Center for Neurological Learning Disabilities, and Christian Sallustro from the User System Interation (USI) program, Eindhoven University of Technology.

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  1. Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Pongpanote Gongsook, Christian Sallustro, Erik van der Spek, Jun Hu & Matthias Rauterberg

  2. Kempenhaeghe, Center for Neurological Learning Disabilities, 5591 VE, Heeze, The Netherlands

    Janneke Peijnenborgh & Jos Hendriksen

  3. ELIOS Lab – DITEN, University of Genova, Via Opera Pia 11/a, 16145, Genoa, Italy

    Francesco Bellotti

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Gongsook, P. et al. (2014). A Diagnostic Tool on Time Perception of Children with ADHD. In: De Gloria, A. (eds) Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8605. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12157-4_35

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