3-D 'occupational therapy' for children: Virtual muscle machine for kids with disabilities
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 00:31
in Mathematics & Economics
A researcher is using a "virtual tabletop" to "move" kids with disabilities and provide home-based treatments using virtual reality tools. Combining new three-dimensional exercises with two-dimensional graphical movement games already programmed into the tabletop (which resembles an early video game), she reports not only success but also enthusiasm among her young patients.