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Three-Dimensional Haptic Manipulator Controlled Game in the Treatment of Developmental Coordination Disorder

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Computer games are more and more used for serious purposes not only for entertainment. In few last years, we can observe very fast market development of serious games. They are used to education, simulation, research, health, and therapy purposes. This article describes a game controlled by Phantom Omni device that could be a rehabilitation tool in the treatment of developmental coordination disorder. The game focuses on usage of the feedback generated by the haptic device.

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This work was performed using the infrastructure supported by POIG.02.03.01-24-099/13 grant: “GCONiI—Upper-Silesian Center for Scientific Computation”.

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  1. Institute of Informatics, Silesian Technical University, Akademicka 16, 44–100, Gliwice, Poland

    Anna Wałach & Agnieszka Szczęsna

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  1. Polish Academy of Sciences, Gliwice, Poland

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    Erol Gelenbe

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    Ricardo Lent

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Wałach, A., Szczęsna, A. (2014). Three-Dimensional Haptic Manipulator Controlled Game in the Treatment of Developmental Coordination Disorder. In: Czachórski, T., Gelenbe, E., Lent, R. (eds) Information Sciences and Systems 2014. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09465-6_39

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