Paper: Serious Games for Rehabilitation A Survey and a Classification Towards a Taxonomy

Rego, P.; Moreira, P.M.; Reis, L.P., "Serious games for rehabilitation: A survey and a classification towards a taxonomy," Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2010 5th Iberian Conference on , vol., no., pp.1,6, 16-19 June 2010


This paper presents fundamental concepts relating to Serious Games followed by a survey of relevant work and applications on Serious Games for Rehabilitation.

As a reference, they  adopted the RehaCom System (see example link). This is a serious game application widely used for cognitive rehabilitation and well grounded in neuro-scientific theory.

Based on the literature reviewed they identify as important main criteria for the classification of Serious games in the rehabilitation area the following ones:

     * Application area
     * Interaction Technology
     * Game interface
     * Number of players
     * Adaptability
     * Performance Feedback
     * Progress monitoring
     * Game portability


Next table displays the classification.

Example:
http://anatomicalconcepts.com/index.php/products/gloreha-hand-rehabilitation#