Advancing digital cognitive rehabilitation: the role of adaptive serious games in enhancing elderly cognitive health.

IF 2 3区工程技术 Q3 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL

Ergonomics Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI:10.1080/00140139.2025.2482784

LiYan Bu, Wanqing Zhang, Hong Chen, WeiCheng Pan, HeSen Li

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Abstract

As individuals age, cognitive decline increases the cognitive load, adversely affecting their ability to perform daily activities. Recently, serious games have emerged as practical digital rehabilitation tools to mitigate cognitive load in older adults. These games are categorised into task-oriented, adaptive, and multimodal types. However, comparative research evaluating the effectiveness of these categories in reducing cognitive load and enhancing cognitive function remains limited. This study systematically compares task-oriented, adaptive, and multimodal serious games to assess their impact on cognitive load and cognitive functions in elderly participants. A comprehensive evaluation indicates that adaptive serious games significantly enhance cognitive indicators, including working memory, attention, and executive functions. These findings highlight the superior potential of adaptive serious games in advancing digital cognitive rehabilitation. Furthermore, the study provides valuable insights for the design of personalised and effective cognitive rehabilitation tools tailored to the needs of the elderly population.

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推进数字认知康复：适应性严肃游戏在增强老年人认知健康中的作用。

随着个人年龄的增长，认知能力下降会增加认知负荷，对他们进行日常活动的能力产生不利影响。最近，严肃游戏已经成为减轻老年人认知负荷的实用数字康复工具。这些游戏可分为任务导向型、适应性和多模式类型。然而，评估这些类别在减少认知负荷和增强认知功能方面的有效性的比较研究仍然有限。本研究系统比较了任务导向、适应性和多模态严肃游戏对老年人认知负荷和认知功能的影响。综合评价表明，适应性严肃游戏显著提高了认知指标，包括工作记忆、注意力和执行功能。这些发现强调了适应性严肃游戏在促进数字认知康复方面的卓越潜力。此外，该研究为设计适合老年人需求的个性化和有效的认知康复工具提供了有价值的见解。

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Ergonomics 工程技术-工程：工业

CiteScore

4.60

自引率

12.50%

发文量

147

审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： Ergonomics, also known as human factors, is the scientific discipline that seeks to understand and improve human interactions with products, equipment, environments and systems. Drawing upon human biology, psychology, engineering and design, Ergonomics aims to develop and apply knowledge and techniques to optimise system performance, whilst protecting the health, safety and well-being of individuals involved. The attention of ergonomics extends across work, leisure and other aspects of our daily lives. The journal Ergonomics is an international refereed publication, with a 60 year tradition of disseminating high quality research. Original submissions, both theoretical and applied, are invited from across the subject, including physical, cognitive, organisational and environmental ergonomics. Papers reporting the findings of research from cognate disciplines are also welcome, where these contribute to understanding equipment, tasks, jobs, systems and environments and the corresponding needs, abilities and limitations of people. All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees.