Title :
A Free, Open-Source Virtual Reality Platform for the Rehabilitation of Cognitive and Psychological Disorders
Author :
Riva, Giuseppe ; Gaggioli, Andrea ; Villani, Daniela ; Preziosa, Alessandra ; Morganti, Francesca ; Corsi, Riccardo ; Faletti, Gianluca ; Vezzadini, Luca
Author_Institution :
Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Lab, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy, and the Psychology Department, Catholic University of Milan, Milan, Italy, phone: +39-02-72343734 email: giuseppe.riva@unicatt.it
Abstract :
The adoption of Virtual Reality in rehabilitation of cognitive and psychological disorders is limited by high costs of software development, lack of technical expertise among end-users, and the difficulty of adapting the contents of the virtual environments (VEs). In this paper, we describe NeuroVR, (http://www.neurovr.org), a cost-free virtual reality platform based on open-source software components that allows non-expert users to easily customize a VE by using a set of pre-designed virtual scenes, and to run them in an immersive or non-immersive modality. In this paper, we provide a description of the key functional features of the platform.
Keywords :
Application software; Costs; Educational institutions; Layout; Military computing; Open source software; Programming; Psychology; Virtual environment; Virtual reality;
Conference_Titel :
Virtual Rehabilitation, 2007
Conference_Location :
Venice, Italy
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1204-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1204-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICVR.2007.4362158
