Designing Games To Help Train Children To Use Prosthetic Arms

Keywords

Custom Interfaces; Game Design; Games for Health; Prosthetics; Training Games

Abstract

Prosthetic Arms are often financially out of reach for children. A single prosthetic can cost upwards of 40,000 USD and as children grow they may need multiple new arms throughout a single year. Further, high end prosthetics can be incredibly complicated allowing for articulated wrists and individual finger movements, leading to a complex learning curve that leaves many adults frustrated leading to lack of use of the prosthetics. Limbitless Solutions, however, has applied low cost 3D printing to the task and has developed a simple to control prosthetic arm for kids and the emerging world. This work explores the use of video games combined with a custom controller to train kids to use their new prosthetic arms before they get them.

Publication Date

6-5-2017

Publication Title

2017 IEEE 5th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, SeGAH 2017

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/SeGAH.2017.7939265

Socpus ID

85021730497 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85021730497

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