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The Assessment of Visuospatial Abilities with Tangible Interfaces and Machine Learning

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Abstract

Visuospatial abilities are framed in the capacity of perceiving, acting and reasoning in function of spatial coordinates, permitting to identify visual and spatial relationships among objects. They represent the set of skills conferring individuals the ability to interact with the surrounding world. Whenever spatial cognition is impaired it is important to correctly assess visuospatial abilities. Scientific literature, for this purpose, reports many diagnostic tools that have been adopted by clinicians and neuropsychologists.

In this paper we present a prototype that aims to evaluate the visuospatial abilities that are related to how individuals explore their peripersonal space. In particular, the presented tool makes use of tangible interfaces and augmented reality systems.

In the final part of this study we describe the implementation of an ecological test for the assessment of visuospatial abilities through our prototype by highlighting its advantage in terms of data collection and analysis.

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  1. Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

    Antonio Cerrato, Michela Ponticorvo, Onofrio Gigliotta & Orazio Miglino

  2. Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Rome, Italy

    Orazio Miglino

  3. Inserm U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtriére, Paris, France

    Paolo Bartolomeo

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Cerrato, A., Ponticorvo, M., Gigliotta, O., Bartolomeo, P., Miglino, O. (2019). The Assessment of Visuospatial Abilities with Tangible Interfaces and Machine Learning. In: Ferrández Vicente, J., Álvarez-Sánchez, J., de la Paz López, F., Toledo Moreo, J., Adeli, H. (eds) Understanding the Brain Function and Emotions. IWINAC 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11486. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19591-5_9

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