A synthetic instrument for diagnosis and performance measurement of Individuals with Visual Sequential Memory Deficit

Abstract

When performing tasks such as remembering letters, numbers, objects, or shapes, a persons Visual Sequential Memory (VSM) plays a crucial role, especially when the order of the tasks is important. Lack of VSM makes the persons life more challenging, possibly leading to dyslexia and dyscalculia. As such, it is important to detect and treat Visual Sequential Memory Deficit (VSMD). But current clinical methods have a low rate of diagnosis, and also offer limited hours to persons being treated in the clinics. In this paper, we propose an Origami based Serious Game, called Memori, as a synthetic instrument for the diagnosis, performance measurement, and treatment of people with VSMD. We illustrate the rationale behind using Origami, the design process of our game, and its implementation. Our preliminarily performance evaluations with 24 adults reveal a 13% improvement of memory and 1.00 score increase in performance while a slight decrease occurred in attentiveness from 2.33 to 2.02 for people who use our tool.