Microsoft Kinect as a stroke rehabilitation tool

for patients suffering from facial paralysis

Adam Russell Philip Breedon Carolyn Fletcher Nottingham Trent University

1. Kinect camera

640 x 480 pixels

100 x 120 pixels

20 x 30

2. Product design

Pip Logan

Becca O’Brien

Carolyn Fletcher

Patrick Hall Oliver Bishop

Ben Childs

Michael Vloeberghs

Ossie Newell

Darrin Baines

(Speech + Language Therapy)

Phil Breedon

Adam Russell

3. “Gamification”

For interesting tasks…

Verbal, Unexpected, Informational Feedback Increases Free-Choice IM

Tangible, Expected, Contingent Rewards Reduces Free-Choice IM

Chris Hecker (2010) Achievements Considered Harmful?

Chris Hecker’s Self-Fulfilling Nightmare 1. make an intrinsically interesting

game task, congratulations!

2. use extrinsic motivators to make your game task better

3. destroy intrinsic motivation to play your game task

4. metrics fetishism pushes you towards designs where EM works

“The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.”

Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937)

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Presentation Notes

What is Andy Murray thinking about when he is “in the zone” making a brilliant shot?

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Is he thinking about this? I think not. In fact he is trained to put this out of his mind completely. He must focus inwardly on the playing itself.

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Adapted from : Sebastian Deterding (2012) “Paideia as paidia” (education as play) @GLS8.0 conference Also consider the term ‘Lusory attitude’ coined by Bernard Suits (1978)

“amidst all this confusion, we’re losing sight of the question of what would happen if we really did apply the deeper powers of game design to more everyday things – if we really did gamify them – and that question is a fascinating, exciting and troubling one. I really hope we get a chance to explore it properly.”

Margaret Robertson (2010) Hideandseek.net

Thanks!

Adam Russell adam.russell@ntu.ac.uk

Design for Health & Wellbeing, NTU