Desarrollo de Serious Games para el entrenamiento y rehabilitación de habilidad cognitivas : Desarrollo de un juego serio para el desarrollo de habilidades de percepción visual y coordinación ojo-mano.

Abstract

This curricular integration project focuses on the design of a serious game aimed at training and improving cognitive skills such as visual perception and hand-eye coordination in children with intellectual disabilities aged 4 to 8. The resulting application has been designed using the iPlus methodology and implemented with the SCRUM framework. It offers three game modes: beginner, intermediate, and advanced, each with challenging levels that increase in complexity as users progress through them. The serious game developed was inspired by a physical game called Crazy Cups or Speed Cups, which has been adapted and modified for cognitive rehabilitation purposes. The game's logic is based on pattern sorting. The creation of this project began by addressing the issue, defining project objectives, and establishing its scope. During the application design phase, the iPlus methodology was chosen to understand the needs of both the client and users, resulting in the acquisition of user stories. The implementation phase utilized the SCRUM framework, taking into account the outcomes of the previous stage, and was executed through iterations (Sprints). Finally, the software was evaluated in terms of functionality, accessibility, and usability. Functionality testing was conducted using use cases to verify functional requirements. Usability testing involved assigning tasks to a user group, complemented by a questionnaire to gather information on the usability percentage of the application. For accessibility, some of the W3C guidelines were taken to adapt them to a non-web context.