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Supporting Therapy-Centered Game Design For Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Jinghui Cheng
Supporting Therapy-Centered Game Design For Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Jinghui Cheng
College of Computing and Digital Media Dissertations
Brain injuries (BI) are a major public health issue. Many therapists who work with patients who have had a BI include games to ameliorate boredom associated with repetitive rehabilitation. However, designing effective, appropriate, and engaging games for BI therapy is challenging. The challenge is especially manifested when considering how to consolidate the different mindsets and motivations among key stakeholders; i.e., game designers and therapists. In this dissertation, I investigated the ideation, creation, and evaluation of game design patterns and a design tool, GaPBIT (Game Design Patterns for BI Therapy) that leveraged patterns to support ideation of …