Rehabilitating Experience: Designing an Aesthetic and Movement-based Game for Physical Therapy

The quality of aesthetic and movement experience is important to a physical therapy patient’s motivation for recovery. The physical therapy patient’s experience of moving is often restricted to their personal recovery plan; however, we are interested in whether connecting to a personal expressive experience and use of external motivation can support the quality of the recovery experience. We ask the question, ‘how can interactive art games support a patient’s recovery process by focusing on quality of movement performance, enjoyment and engagement?’ The recent rise of gameplay with virtual and augmented reality, high resolution graphics and believable characters is now easily available to the consumer. A variety of games designed to support therapeutic environments and rehabilitation exist, yet the area of movement and aesthetic experience is under researched. In our investigation of colour psychology, frameworks for movement quality, and implementation of gaming elements in therapeutic environments, we explore trends as to what succeeds or doesn’t to make an engaging and productive therapy game. Supernova is an exploratory project to investigate the intersection of motivation in physical therapy, experience-focused design, and digital interaction.

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Kimberly Hobby

Kristin Carlson

Dane Wheaton

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 167-174

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[0001]Illinois State University

Bloomington, IL, USA

[0002]Columbia College Chicago

Chicago, IL, USA

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2017.38

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2017)

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 11 – 13 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] I. BartenieffD. Lewis 1980 Body Movement: Coping with the Environment. Routledge

[2] L. Boschman 2012 How Wii Play: Incorporating Wii Fit PlusTM into a Physical Activity Program for Midlife and Older Women. PhD Dissertation. Simon Fraser University Canada

[3] J. Chen 2006 Flow. Video game. http://www.ienovachen.com/flowingames/flowing.htm 4 April 2017

[4] D. FreemanN. LaPierreF. ChevalierD. Reilly 2013 Tweetris: a study of whole-body interaction during a public art event 9th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C ‘13). ACM, NY 224 233

[5] Gesturetek 2016 Immersive Therapy Suite. http://www.gesturetekhealth.com/products/immersive-therapy-suite 3 May 2017

[6] H. G. HoffmanJ. N. DoctorD. R. PattersonG. J. CarrougherT. A. Furness 2000 Use of virtual reality for adjunctive treatment of adolescent burn pain during wound care: a case report Pain 85 305 309

[7] S. LindleyJ. Le CouterN. Berthouze 2008 Stirring up experience through movement in game play: effects on engagement and social behaviour Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘08). ACM, New York, NY, USA 511 514

[8] Logo Company 2016 [Graph illustration of company logos grouped by color and corresponding to emotions]. The psychology of color in logo design. https://thelogocompanv.net/blog/infographics/psvchology-color-logo-design/ 3 May 2017

[9] J. McCarthyP. WrightJ. WallaceA. Dearden 2006 The experience of enchantment in human computer interaction Personal Ubiquitous Computing 10 6 369 378

[10] A. S. MeriansD. JackR. BoianM. TremaineG. C. BurdeaS. V. AdamovichH. Poizner 2002 Virtual reality-augmented rehabilitation for patients following stroke Physical Therapy 82 9 898 915

[11] D. MonningT. V. Perneger 2002 Scale to measure patient satisfaction with physical therapy Physical Therapy: Journal of the American Physical Therapy Association 82 682 691

[12] L NackeS. StellmachD. SasseC. Lindley 2009 Gameplay experience in a gaze interaction game Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Communication by Gaze Interaction 103 108

[13] Chris O’Shea 2013 February Woodland wiggle. http://www.chrisoshea.org/woodland-wiggle

[14] M. PaschN. Bianchi-BerthouzeB van DijkA. Nijolt 2009 Movement-based sports video games: Investigating motivation and gaming experience Entertainment Computing 1 2 49 61 April

[15] A. Peeters 2016 Why enactive cognition makes virtual reality real. Blog Post. https://www.ancopeeters.com/2016/06/27/why-enactive-cognition-makes-virtual-reality-real/ 11 July 2016

[16] L. R. RebenitschC. B. OwenS. Coburn 2014 World and object designs for virtual environments Meaningful Play 2014 Conference Proceedings.

[17] G. RobillardS. BouchardT. FournierP. Renaud 2003 Anxiety and presence during VR immersion: comparative study of the reactions of phobic non-phobic participants in therapeutic virtual environments derived from computer games CyberPsychology & Behavior 6 5 467 476

[18] S. SalevatiS. DiPaolaK. CarlsonT. Schiphorst 2016 Movement awareness through emotion based aesthetic visualisation J. P. BowenG. DiproseN. Lambert EVA London 2016: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts 124 132 DOI:10.14236/ewic/EVA2016.27

[19] S. M. SchneiderL. E. Hood 2007 Virtual reality: a distraction intervention for chemotherapy Oncol Nurs Forum 34 1 39 46

[20] P. SubyenD. MarananT. SchiphorstP. PasquierL. Bartram 2011 EMVIZ: the poetics of movement quality visualization. Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging (CAe ‘11). ACM, New York, NY, USA 121 128

[21] D. WilleK. EngL. HoplerE. ChevrierY. HauserKiperD.A. Meyer-Heim 2009 Virtual reality-based paediatric interactive therapy system (PITS) for improvement of arm and hand function in children with motor impairment-a pilot study. Developmental Neurorehabilitation 12 1 44 52

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