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SilverTouch: Game-based Training for Children with Myoelectric Prostheses

In the context of Medicine, technology facilitates the design and development of prostheses that make it possible for patients to recover specific movements. Myoelectric prostheses connect to the patient nerves directly and allow limb movements via electric impulses generated by the nervous system. However, the use of these prostheses requires intensive training, which can be hard and tiring, especially for children. The use of games can make training much more enjoyable. In this paper, we describe SilverTouch, an application to help children to train the use of myoelectric prostheses by means of three different types of multi-touch games. The games are dynamically generated for each user according to his needs and performance at runtime. We have designed them following the advice of experts in Medicine, Physiotherapy, Therapy and Education. The results are promising: the final users agreed that SilverTouch is a good tool for training the use of prostheses, while the experts confirmed its potential to be widely utilized for that purpose.