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Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality as Driver Tools for Promoting Cognitive Activity and Avoid Isolation in Ageing Population

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In this work, the Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR) technologies are presented as candidate tools for promoting cognitive and physical activity and for avoiding social isolation in ageing population. The work includes a desk-research, focused on the software/hardware solutions, innovations and challenges. An experimental study in ageing population has been conducted to get preliminary results about the benefits and drawbacks of these technologies for elderly. The positive feedback received open the door to extend the study with specific key performance indicators (KPIs) that can help to better measure the improvements of cognitive and physical activity through continuous training, and e.g. to study the benefits on ageing population with specific impairments or degenerative diseases like dementia, Parkinson or Alzheimer.

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Acknowledgments

We thank all participants in the experimental study, especially a loving memory to Mr. Gómez, who passed away in August 2021.

This work has been partially funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 857188 – Pharaon Project, and Spanish National Project ONOFRE-2, ref. TEC2017-84423-C3-2-P (MINECO/AEI/FEDER, UE).

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  1. Building Lifecycle Management, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Englerstr. 7, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Maria Victoria Gómez-Gómez & Volker Koch

  2. Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Plaza del Hospital, Cuartel de Antigones, 30202, Cartagena, Spain

    María Victoria Bueno-Delgado & Cristina Albaladejo-Pérez

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  1. Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

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  3. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Sts Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, North Macedonia

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Gómez-Gómez, M.V., Bueno-Delgado, M.V., Albaladejo-Pérez, C., Koch, V. (2021). Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality as Driver Tools for Promoting Cognitive Activity and Avoid Isolation in Ageing Population. In: Pires, I.M., Spinsante, S., Zdravevski, E., Lameski, P. (eds) Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good. GOODTECHS 2021. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 401. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91421-9_15

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