Title:

IS-2 How the new technologies might lead to a paradigm shift in psychological and neuropsychological research.

Publication: ICAROB2018
Volume: 23
Pages: 20-23
ISSN: 2188-7829
DOI: 10.5954/ICAROB.2018.IS-2
Author(s): Luigi Pagliarini, Henrik Hautop Lund
Publication Date: February 2, 2018
Keywords: Playful robotics, Psychology, Neuropsychology, Therapy, Clinical Tests, New Paradigm
Abstract: Recently, we started to apply old psychological and neuropsychological standard tests and therapeutic exercises into a different domain of technology. Therefore, while maintaining the whole conceptual and logical structure of the traditional approach – i.e. tests mostly made by hand on paper or with the mouse and computers' screens - intact, we moved them onto the physical interactive and playful technology, Moto Tiles. Such a translation of input/output, likewise involving dissimilar perceptions and different parts of our motor system (i.e. legs, feet and balance system), might imply a change in subjects' mental and behavioural strategies, variations in efficacy and efficiency, as well as a redefinition of reaction times. In short, this shift, besides providing a significant extra tool to older practices, might work as a crucial test for all of the existing theoretical background, too. We describe our new method and report few of the first empirical applications.
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