PlayWithEyes: A new way to test children eyes

Author

De Bortoli, Alberto ; Gaggi, Ombretta

Author_Institution

Dept. of Pure & Appl. Math., Univ. of Padua, Padua, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

16-18 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

One of the major problems of doctors when dealing with children is to capture and maintain their attention. This is particularly true for oculists that must test children eyes, especially if they are very young. In this paper we present PlayWithEyes, a serious game that aims at testing the children eyes while they are having fun playing with Lea symbols and images taken from popular cartoons, using a touch interface. PlayWithEyes was created to perform screening of visual acuity of very young children, since early diagnosis is very important for some sight defects like amblyopia (lazy eye).

Keywords

computer games; eye; medical computing; patient diagnosis; touch sensitive screens; Lea symbols; PlayWithEyes game; amblyopia defect; children eye test; lazy eye defect; serious game; touch interface; visual acuity screening; Games; Pediatrics; Servers; Software; Vision defects; Visualization; assistive technologies; game-based diagnosis; mobile devices; multimedia applications; natural human interaction; serious games;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH), 2011 IEEE 1st International Conference on

Conference_Location

Braga

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0433-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SeGAH.2011.6165458

Filename

6165458