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Design guidelines for developing customised serious games for Parkinsonâs Disease rehabilitation using bespoke game sensors
The research presented in this paper proposes a set of design guidelines in the context of a Parkinsonâs Disease (PD) rehabilitation design framework for the development of serious games for the physical therapy of people with PD. The game design guidelines provided in the paper are informed by the study of the literature review and lessons learned from the pilot testing of serious games designed to suit the requirements of rehabilitation of patients with Parkinsonâs Disease. The proposed PD rehabilitation design framework employed for the games pilot testing utilises a low-cost, customized and off-the-shelf motion capture system (employing commercial game controllers) developed to cater for the unique requirement of the physical therapy of people with PD. Although design guidelines have been proposed before for the design of serious games in health, this is the first research paper to present guidelines for the design of serious games specifically for PD motor rehabilitation.The authors acknowledge Brunel University for funding the pilot study and Queenâs University in Belfast for organising and hosting the pilot testing interventions