Virtual city - serious game battery for cognitive training and daily activities practice in ecologically valid virtual environement (TL01000309)
Basic information
Investigator: Mgr. et. Mgr. Iveta Fajnerová, Ph.D.
Main recipient: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Co-recipient: 3dsense, s r.o. (Ing. Jan Hrdlička)
Research period: 1/3/2018 – 31/12/2021
Total budget: 9,704,706 CZK
NIMH budget: 4,261,706 CZK
Supported by: Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TAČR)
Annotation
The aim of the project is to create a complex SW training in VR city environment with high ecological validity that will enable a comprehensive exercise of cognitive abilities (working memory, declarative memory, attention and executive functions such as decision making, planning, mental flexibility, etc.). The program resulting from the successful project can be later applied in the prevention of the development of cognitive deficits in healthy aging individuals. The designed SW could be thus implemented not only in clinical and day-care programs organized in NIMH clinical facility, but also in collaborative workplaces (Center MEMORY Bratislava, CDZ Karviná, see Letters of intent) and other centers aimed at daily programs for healthy aging and mental health prevention in general.