Voici la présentation qui a servi de support à la soutenance devant le jury de professionnels des e-virtuoses, le 4 juin dernier à Valenciennes. Hammer and Planks a remporté l'award dans la catégorie Serious Game Santé.

1. Hammer and Planks
A movement based therapeutic game
NaturalPad

2. A user story
 Mr. Smith has had a stroke: he needs to retrain his
balance on the right side.

3.  Anaïs, ergotherapist, supports Mr. Smith re-education
by suggesting that he play Hammer and Planks.
A user story

4.  She can modify the game’s parameters in real-time in order
to adjust the difficulty to Mr. Smith’s abilities.
A user story

5.  After the game she can access the logs to analyse Mr.
Smith’s progress.
A user story

6.  Anaïs Ivorra
 Institute of Ergotherapy of Creteil
 Balance training for Hemiplegic patients
 ‘‘Vertical Shooter’’ controled by the centre of mass
Hammer and Planks

7. Design and Development
 Participative Design
 User stories
 The ‘‘Bible’’: 20 Google Documents
 Agile development process
 Multiple iterations
 Short cycles
 Frequent feedback from healthcare professionals

8. Version 1:
Montpellier In
Game
Presented at the Montpellier In
Game (MIG) 2012
Rapid prototype development cycle
Tested with patients

9. Presented to Nîmes, Alès and
Montpellier Hospitals
A game-independent framework for the
real-time modification of gameplay
parameters
Soon to be deployed to a physiotherapy
practice and two university hospitals
Version 2:
Therapeutic Interface

10.  How do I play ? On what ?
 Keyboard and mouse
 Gamepads : Xbox 360, Playstation 3
 Wii Board : Sitting or standing, arms or legs
 Kinect : Arms, upper body, centre of gravity…
 Touchpads : Android, iOS
 Coming soon : PSMove, Wiimotes…
 Easy to adapt to different patients, caregivers and
therapies
Many ways to play

11.  Web platform
 Therapist and patient account management
 Real-time gameplay adjustement
 Analysis of the results
Social platform

12.  A story to tell…
 Real-time difficulty modification
 ‘‘Game orchestration’’ (Dungeons & Dragons)
 Casual, hardcore & disabled players at the MIG
 High score ‘‘Hall of fame’’
 700 games played in 2 days
Our biggest fan !
A (not too) serious game
Conclusion 1

13. Play cooperatively with caregivers and family members
A considerable motivating factor!
Asymetric gameplay
Conclusion 2

14.  Antoine Seilles
 antoine@naturalpad.org
 www.naturalpad.org
Thank you for listening