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Christian Garske

Using game-play to motivate patients in rehabilitation.

Email: c.a.garske2@ncl.ac.uk

Project title

Enhancing engagement and motivation in game-based rehabilitation

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Project description

In rehabilitation, patients usually need to repeat movements. But they often fail to meet the repetitions needed for improvement. Game-play offers an alternative method. It can engage the patient. It can provide motivation to increase repetition of rehabilitation-relevant muscle activities.

Games provide challenging, intensive, task-specific conditions. These are necessary to promote behaviour adaptation. But ensuring motivation and engagement in game-play is not trivial.

This research draws from both game design and the neuroscience of engagement and motivation. We will design a game-based prosthetic training tool. The tool will increase adherence to therapeutically relevant exercises..

Qualifications

  • MSc in Bioinformatics from University of Hamburg, Germany
  • BSc and MSc in Computational Life Science from University of Lübeck, Germany

 

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