Creating a new method for assessing functional abilities, using biomarkers of human behaviour in immersive situations
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Abstract
The loss of autonomy related to the aging process is a major public health issue. Clinical tests exist to evaluate it, but are often decontextualized and sanitized from the daily life lived and don’t reflect faithfully the individual’s abilities. The use of immersive virtual reality could make it possible to implement more adapted evaluation conditions. The aim of this research is to propose a new method, based on an immersive technological tool allowing to evaluate the functional abilities in virtual environments simulating everyday activities. Fifty elderly people and fifty young adults participated to the virtual experience. They performed various motor and attentional tasks of increasing complexity during which relevant biomarkers of human behavior were measured.
Scores were then created to quantify different modalities of motor control, including functional mobility abilities, automated and adaptive locomotion abilities, range of motion abilities, and attentional abilities. It is therefore a methodological and feasibility work leading to the creation of a new model evaluating functional abilities based on immersive situations. This tool will have to be reproduced, refined and validated for a wider use.
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