Gaming Technology Meets Elder Care in Europe
From: InformationWeek - 01/08/2013
By: Gary Flood 

European computer scientists, academics, and health care professionals are
collaborating on Verve, a $6 million project to study how gaming technology
can help people with chronic neurological and mental health disorders. The
researchers aim to build therapeutic tools based on what they find useful
from personalized virtual reality environments, 3D Web graphics, and serious
computer games to help vulnerable people complete daily activities in a
fulfilling and dignified way. The researchers want to create
computer-generated avatars that look and speak like believable humans, and
place them in computer games to model everyday scenarios such as cooking and
shopping. Verve will use XML3D, XFlow, and other related technologies to
create a common visualization platform for the users. "We're looking to see
if we can solve specific clinical problems by employing existing technology
from the entertainment sector that's never been applied to clinical issues,"
says Trinity College professor Richard Reilly. 

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Links:
Verve
http://www.verveconsortium.eu/

Seventh Framework
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home_en.html