Maas, B. (Bart) (2020) The influence of task specificity on transfer from a serious game to control of an upper limb prosthesis. thesis, Human Movement Sciences.
Full text available on request.Abstract
Introduction: The types of serious games that can be used to train transfer to functional prosthesis use can either be Task-Specific or not, meaning that a game would be task-specific when the tasks in the game resemble the tasks of daily life. Previous research is however divided in their opinion whether a game needs to be task-specific for transfer to occur, or if any myogame works when they are trained with long enough. This study aims to test whether the Task-Specific (TS) game or the Non-Task-Specific (NTS) game shows 1) the most transfer to actual prosthesis use, 2) the highest improvement in quality of the EMG-signal and 3) the most in-game score improvement. Methods: A pre-test post-test design was used where 11 participants were divided into 3 groups where they trained for 10 sessions of 20 minutes with either a Task-Specific game, a Non-Task-Specific game or both games but with the mouse as a control. Unfortunately, no more participants could be included due to the COVID-19 epidemic. Results: Our findings show that there is no significant improvement in functional prosthesis use between the pre-test and post-test for any of the groups. There was also no significant improvement found in the quality of the EMG-signal or in in-game score for any of the groups. Conclusion: From the results of the current study we can only conclude that there is no difference in transfer between a TS-game and an NTS-game since both games did not show transfer. We can also conclude that there is no improvement in in-game score or the quality of the EMG-signals with either the TS-game or NTS-game.
| Item Type: | Thesis (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Supervisor name: | Bongers, dr. R.M. |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 20 May 2022 09:15 |
| Last Modified: | 20 May 2022 09:15 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3366 |
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