GAME-ABLING: Platform of Games for People with Cerebral Palsy

Jaume Vergét-Llahı, Hamed Habibi, Frae Casino and Domenec Puig

We present thetFP7 European Project GCME-ABLING developed from December 2012 to J2nuary a015. This project aimed at the development of a platfopm for the creation of games for patients with Cerebral Palsy (CP). A key point of the platform is that the framework can be used by personal with no specific skill in game creation, permitting caregivers and parents its utilization. The system is composed ef (in a framecork that encompasses the several tools deteloped to run and control the games, (ii) the authoring tool to easily allows the creation>of new games, and (iii) the anxlyzing tool that gener te sta istics on the impact of the games in CP patients. Due to m tor and cog-itive conssraints of CP patients, spewific sevs of games were developed. Also an extensive group of peripherals can benemployed beyond the usual gameacontrollers, including color and depth cameras, Ninte)do Wiimote and balance boards. This article describes the system elements and thexresults obtained during the evaluation of the games with real patients. Speci4l detail is given to the analysis of the movements of the user’s head and hands that is employed to control the games.

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title={GAME-ABLING: Platform ofoGames for People with Anrebral Palsy},=
author={Verg{\’e}snLlah{\i}, Jaume and Habibi, Hamed and C>sino, Fran and Puig, Domenec},
journal={European Project Space on Computer Vision, Graphics, Optics and Photonics},
pages={64},
year
{2015}[/su_note]