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Title:
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SENSORY GAME FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE UTILIZING PHYSICAL CONTACT |
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Author(s):
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Shinnosuke Ide, Yumu Horii, Hisashi Sato, Takashi Nakamura |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8533-38-8 |
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Editors:
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Katherine Blashki and Yingcai Xiao |
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Year:
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2015 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Rehabilitation, Game for elder people, Body-contacting game, electro conductive fabric |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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256 |
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Last Page:
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260 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Recently, the shortage of care personnel is a problem in Japan. Rehabilitation, which is necessary for the elderly to live without nursing care, is a monotone activity that the elderly often feels stress to carry on. In this study, we noticed the benefit of the movement of playing tag to touch bodies, and developed a game for rehabilitation by adopting this movement. We developed (i) a unique game controller easy to handle by the elderly and consisting of an apron and an electrically conductive fabric, with which the judgment as to whether a body of a player is touched or not can be made, and (ii) a game system in which the body movement in gymnastic exercises for rehabilitation is adopted. As a result of actual use of the game by the elderly, the game was evaluated such that the game per se was mostly a good rehabilitation game, but in conclusion, it was considered as being too difficult for the elderly because of its fast tempo. |
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