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Enhancing Neuropsychological Testing with Gamification and Tangible Interfaces: The Baking Tray Task

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Biomedical Applications Based on Natural and Artificial Computing (IWINAC 2017)

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Neuropsychological tests are performance-based tasks to evaluate cognitive functions, but often they are particularly long and boring during their execution; these issues can interfere with performance provided by patients or healthy participants. In this paper, we present our gamified and virtually enhanced version of a specific neuropsychological test: The Baking Tray Task (BTT), aimed to assess unilateral spatial neglect (USN), a visuospatial processing disorder. This enhanced BTT version has been developed through STELT (Smart Technologies to Enhance Learning and Teaching) software, a platform which allows implementation of augmented reality systems based on RFID/NFC technology. These materials permit to link together smart technologies and physical materials, uniting the manipulative approach and digitalized technologies.

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This project has been supported by INF@NZIA DIGI.tales, funded by Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research under PON-Smart Cities for Social Inclusion programme.

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    Antonio Cerrato & Michela Ponticorvo

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  2. Departamento de Inteligencia Articial, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain

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Cerrato, A., Ponticorvo, M. (2017). Enhancing Neuropsychological Testing with Gamification and Tangible Interfaces: The Baking Tray Task. In: Ferrández Vicente, J., Álvarez-Sánchez, J., de la Paz López, F., Toledo Moreo, J., Adeli, H. (eds) Biomedical Applications Based on Natural and Artificial Computing. IWINAC 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10338. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59773-7_16

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