Search and Match Task: Development of a Taskified Match-3 Puzzle Game to Assess and Practice Visual Search.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Visual search declines with aging, dementia, and brain injury and is linked to limitations in everyday activities. Recent studies suggest that visual search can be improved with practice using computerized visual search tasks and puzzle video games. For practical use, it is important that visual search ability can be assessed and practiced in a controlled and adaptive way. However, commercial puzzle video games make it hard to control task difficulty, and there are little means to collect performance data.

Objective

The aim of this study was to develop and initially validate the search and match task (SMT) that combines an enjoyable tile-matching match-3 puzzle video game with features of the visual search paradigm (taskified game). The SMT was designed as a singl

SUBMITTER: Chesham A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6532342 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature