A Free, Open-Source Virtual Reality Platform for the Rehabilitation of Cognitive and Psychological Disorders

Author

Riva, Giuseppe ; Gaggioli, Andrea ; Villani, Daniela ; Preziosa, Alessandra ; Morganti, Francesca ; Corsi, Riccardo ; Faletti, Gianluca ; Vezzadini, Luca

Author_Institution

Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Lab, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy, and the Psychology Department, Catholic University of Milan, Milan, Italy, phone: +39-02-72343734 email: giuseppe.riva@unicatt.it

fYear

2007

fDate

27-29 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

159

Lastpage

163

Abstract

The adoption of Virtual Reality in rehabilitation of cognitive and psychological disorders is limited by high costs of software development, lack of technical expertise among end-users, and the difficulty of adapting the contents of the virtual environments (VEs). In this paper, we describe NeuroVR, (http://www.neurovr.org), a cost-free virtual reality platform based on open-source software components that allows non-expert users to easily customize a VE by using a set of pre-designed virtual scenes, and to run them in an immersive or non-immersive modality. In this paper, we provide a description of the key functional features of the platform.

Keywords

Application software; Costs; Educational institutions; Layout; Military computing; Open source software; Programming; Psychology; Virtual environment; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Virtual Rehabilitation, 2007

Conference_Location

Venice, Italy

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1204-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1204-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICVR.2007.4362158

Filename

4362158