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Exergames and Virtual Reality are positive technologies which can be effectively used for the assessment and the training of cognitive capabilities in elderly population. The current COVID-19 pandemic and a consistent number of people living in small villages far from big city centers make necessary to develop applications which can be used remotely at the users’ homes. Web-based applications, and in particular WebGL, are a promising technology to cope with such needs and to design instruments for active ageing. Here, we propose a WebGL exergame for the assessment of cognitive capabilities of elderly people, and a web-based procedure to offer the game and to collect data. In this paper, we assess (i) the digital autonomy of a group of volunteers who tested the web-based exergame, and (ii) the potentiality of Unity WebGL build to create non-immersive Virtual Reality environments.
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We wish to thank Luca Spallarossa for the helpful comments and the support in implementing the networking infrastructure.
This work has been partially supported by the Interreg Alcotra projects PRO-SOL We-Pro (n. 4298) and CLIP E-Santé (n. 4793).
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Chessa, M., Bassano, C., Solari, F. (2021). A WebGL Virtual Reality Exergame for Assessing the Cognitive Capabilities of Elderly People: A Study About Digital Autonomy for Web-Based Applications. In: Del Bimbo, A., et al. Pattern Recognition. ICPR International Workshops and Challenges. ICPR 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12662. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68790-8_14
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