Rehabilitation Game Model for Personalised Exercise (Dominic Holmes, Darryl Charles, Philip Morrow, Sally McClean and Suzanne McDonough) Interactive Technologies and Games (ITAG) Conference 2015 Health, Disability and EducationDates: Thursday 22 October 2015 - Friday 23 October 2015 Location: The Council House, NG1 2DT

1. Rehabilitation Game Model for
Personalised Exercise
Dominic Holmes, Darryl Charles, Philip Morrow, Sally
McClean, and Suzanne McDonough

2. • Games are created on the basis of design principle, along with
core game mechanics to aid game designers in the design of
engaging gameplay.
• Researchers and game designers have recognized that there
are variations in the way players choose to interact in games
and how they may be engaged and motivated to play games
• Behaviour change is the identification of negative aspects of
an individual or groups behaviour towards a topic, and using
behaviour change techniques to change those behaviours to
bring about a positive attitude towards the topic.
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Introduction

3. Personalised
Rehabilitation
Gaming System
Engaging factors of games
for a specific player
(Player profiling)
Game Mechanics
Behaviour Change
Techniques
To develop a new way to designing and assessing
interactive rehabilitation systems that are tailored to
the users personality.
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Motivation

4. Games
• Highly engaging and fun, key reason why games are popular in
rehabilitation
• Games may be broken down and understood by their
underlying game mechanics.
• Researchers and game designers have done this, creating a
detailed classification of game design patterns (game
mechanics).
– Staffan Bjork & Jussi Holopainen
– David Perry
– Schell
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Background

5. Gamification
• Helps make non-game process become more engaging and fun.
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Background
Anarchy
Light Touch
Anonymity
Development Tools
Voting/Voice
Innovation Platform
Access
Meaning/Purpose
Care-taking
Collect & Trade
Sharing Knowledge
Gifting/Sharing
Exploration
Branching Choices
Easter Eggs
Unlockable/ Rare Content
Customisation
Creativity Tools
Challenges
Certificates
Quests
Learning/New Skills
Boss Battles
Levels/ Progression
Social Status
Social Network
Social Pressure
Competition
Social Discovery
Guilds/Teams
Points/ Exp Points (XP)
Physical Rewards/Prizes
LeaderBoards/Ladders
Badges/Achievements
Virtual Economy
Lottery/Game of Chance

6. Behaviour Change
• A new behaviour change framework called Behaviour Change Wheel
(BCW) is used to analyses and implement behaviour change interventions.
• The core of the BCW is the COM-B model of behaviour change,
highlighting that behaviour is part of an interacting system comprised of
the three COM components.
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Background
• A detailed taxonomy called Behaviour Change
Techniques (BCTs) give detailed methods of
changing 1 or more of the COM components
to promote a behaviour change.

7. 7
Rehabilitation Gaming Model (RGM)

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Rehabilitation Gaming Model (RGM)
• The RGM can be used in two main ways.
– Design Tool enabling designers to communicate
rehabilitation game ideas, aiding in delivering
effective, fun gameplay suited for a range of
personalities and rehabilitation exercises.
– Assessment Tool for the evaluation of existing
rehabilitation or purely entertainment based
games that may be suited for rehabilitation.

9. • To evaluate the RGM as an assessment tool
– Selected five popular commercial games from
different core genres.
– Three relevant rehabilitation games.
• The approach requires the evaluator to play or
observe video of gameplay and note all of the
game design patterns that link to gamification
features as described in the RGM.
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RGM as an
Assessment Tool

12. • The commercial and rehabilitation games exhibited
RGM profiles that provide a strong emphasis of the
Achiever attribute.
• The rehabilitation games, while well-designed have a
narrow design focus on achievement-oriented rewards.
• Argued that a “gamer” population would naturally be
interested in challenges, whereas a group of people
engaged in rehabilitation (e.g. stroke rehab.) are more
likely to be engaged by broader system features such as
social and creative factors.
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Conclusion

13. VIDEO?
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Parallel Work

14. Thank you
Any questions?