| Title: |
A Low-cost Feasibility Training Study for DCD Children's Perceptual-motor Therapy. |
| Authors: |
BASDEKIDOU, Chrysanthi; STYLIADIS, Athanasios; ARGYRIADIS, Alexandros; DIMEN, Levente |
| Source: |
Baltic Journal of Modern Computing; 2023, Vol. 11 Issue 4, p726-754, 29p |
| Subject Terms: |
APRAXIA; PHYSIOLOGICAL aspects of walking; MOTOR ability; COGNITIVE maps (Psychology); MENTAL rotation; EYE tracking; VIRTUAL reality |
| Abstract: |
The motor coordination problem of children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) has been frequently associated with poor visual and spatial eye-vision cognition. Virtual reality (VR) and immersive environments in occupational therapy and rehabilitation fields are major changes nowadays and VR has been shown to encourage more repetition allowing for faster motor skill development and recovery. In addition, spatial cognition has attracted the attention of the scientific community recently in mental rotation, DCD orientation, spatial navigation, and cognitive mapping. This feasibility study demonstrated the usability of an immersive VR environment as a spatial cognition recording tool for children with motor skill disorders. Eighty children aged five to eight years; five intervention groups; four virtual 3D environments with flora (trees, plants) and linearity (spatial linear structure geometries as landmark coordination cues) as design parameters; and trial walk-through exercises on a predefined trial visual pathway and on the same motor coordination control situations (darkness, no time-pressing). Participants' time performance and walk-through satisfaction were recorded and analyzed statistically. Walking physiology was shown to be more stable and robust (in path completion rates, time performance, and walk-through level of satisfaction) in virtual 3D environments rich in flora and linearity. The VR training functionality and the immersive learning performance enjoyed a 19% reduction in time performance and 102% more walk-through satisfaction, and their effectiveness and robustness were validated statistically. Children with motor skill difficulties train and learn better in virtual 3D environments rich in flora and linearity. Hence, immersive walk-through trials in digital environments rich in flora and linearity, as training interventions, could be regarded as a perceptual-motor therapy (PMT) as they seemed beneficial in improving DCD children's motor function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Complementary Index |