TY  - GEN
AU  - Gesi,Marco
AU  - Condino,Sara
AU  - Turini,Giuseppe
AU  - Viglialoro,Rosanna Maria
AU  - Carbone,Marina
AU  - Gesi,Marco
AU  - Condino,Sara
AU  - Turini,Giuseppe
AU  - Viglialoro,Rosanna Maria
AU  - Carbone,Marina
TI  - Serious Games and Mixed Reality Applications for Healthcare
SN  - books978-3-0365-4152-5
PY  - 2022///
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
KW  - Research & information: general
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Biology, life sciences
KW  - Biochemistry
KW  - reaction time
KW  - accuracy rate
KW  - serious game
KW  - PC-based game
KW  - MCI
KW  - dementia
KW  - elderly healthcare
KW  - cognitive function
KW  - surgical simulation
KW  - augmented reality
KW  - spine surgery
KW  - hybrid simulator
KW  - pedicle screws fixation training
KW  - unity game engine
KW  - healthcare simulation
KW  - mixed reality
KW  - hybrid
KW  - medical training
KW  - serious games
KW  - rehabilitation
KW  - elderly
KW  - body tracking
KW  - exercise games
KW  - AMD
KW  - salience
KW  - virtual reality
KW  - VR
KW  - preventive care
KW  - self-regulation
KW  - assisted Neurofeedback
KW  - neurostimulation
KW  - mindfulness
KW  - randomized
KW  - serious games BCI
KW  - exergames
KW  - personalized exergames
KW  - multicomponent training
KW  - wearable sensors
KW  - older adults
KW  - game design
KW  - interaction design
KW  - mild cognitive impairment
KW  - machine learning
KW  - feature selection
KW  - data transformations
KW  - classification
KW  - n/a
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have long histories in the healthcare sector, offering the opportunity to develop a wide range of tools and applications aimed at improving the quality of care and efficiency of services for professionals and patients alike. The best-known examples of VR-AR applications in the healthcare domain include surgical planning and medical training by means of simulation technologies. Techniques used in surgical simulation have also been applied to cognitive and motor rehabilitation, pain management, and patient and professional education. Serious games are ones in which the main goal is not entertainment, but a crucial purpose, ranging from the acquisition of knowledge to interactive training.These games are attracting growing attention in healthcare because of their several benefits: motivation, interactivity, adaptation to user competence level, flexibility in time, repeatability, and continuous feedback. Recently, healthcare has also become one of the biggest adopters of mixed reality (MR), which merges real and virtual content to generate novel environments, where physical and digital objects not only coexist, but are also capable of interacting with each other in real time, encompassing both VR and AR applications.This Special Issue aims to gather and publish original scientific contributions exploring opportunities and addressing challenges in both the theoretical and applied aspects of VR-AR and MR applications in healthcare
UR  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/5567
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/84585
ER  -