Virtual centre for the rehabilitation of road accident victims (VICERAVI)
Liliana Mendes, Artemisa R. Dores, Fernando deHolanda Barbosa, Paula Alexandra Rego, Pedro Miguel Moreira, Luís Paulo Reis, José Corrêa Viana, Antonio Fernando Coelho, Armando Jorge Sousa · Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) · 2012
The main objective of this work is to describe the Virtual Center for the Rehabilitation of Road Accident Victims - VICERAVI and the serious games it includes for the purpose of neuropsychological rehabilitation. The validation of the VICERAVI as a rehabilitation system involves 30 participants of both sexes, with brain injury due to road accidents. The applicability and the benefits of virtual worlds for a holistic neuropsychological rehabilitation will be tested using virtual reality (OpenSimulator) to simulate tasks of everyday life,,enabling participants to perform cognitive and social skills training through their avatars. The progresses of this group will se compared with a group of conventional neuropsychological rehabilitation. The main innovation of the work is the possibility if administering neuropsychological rehabilitation at distance, via ecological virtual environments. Moreover, the paper discusses also relevant criteria and issues in respect to the use of serious games, simulation and virtual environments in rehabilitation.