INMER
From EuroVR Knowledge Base
- Full name
- INMER: Assessing & Development to Virtual Reality Techniques applied to the social integration of persons with autism and persons with Down Syndrome.
- Acronym
- INMER
- Website
- Keywords
- psychophysics studies
- Budget
- € 450.000 Euros.
- Start date
- 10/1/1999
- End date
- 1/1/1970
Contents |
Partners
- [[IR-UVEG
Autismo Burgos The University of Birmingham - Autism Team School of Education]]
Funding Bodies
- [[Spanish Ministry of Science & Technology PROFIT R+D Program
Spanish Social Integration Institute (IMSERSO)]]
Contact
- [[IR-UVEG
Polígono de la Coma S/N 46980 Paterna Valencia Email: Gerardo.Herrera@uv.es
Web: Tel: +34 96 3543573 Fax: +34 96 3543550 (mailto:useremail@useremail)
Objectives
I high percentage of people with autism shows difficulties in understanding imagination. When the mother or the teacher says, for example, ‘look how the spoon is transformed into a plane’ they seem indifferent and seem not understanding and interiorising this kind of imaginary transformations. Whit the help of Virtual Reality it is possible to recreate explicitly this kind of transformation. Within this research line educational exercises orientated towards this aim are developed and experimentally assessed. We already have created and distributed the educational tool (Spanish version) named ‘I am going to act as if...’ for which we have received more than 1200 requests from centres and professionals dedicated to autism and from autonomic governments.
Main Results
- Material results:
-Prototype, Several VR training tools for Autistic people.
- Applicative results
“Voy a hacer como si...”: Virtual Reality Teaching tools to work imagination aspects with autistic people.
End Users
Evaluation Methodologies
Design Approach
Publications
- M. Fernández et al.: “Evaluación del uso de técnicas de realidad virtual como herramienta educativa para el tratamiento de personas con autismo” I+S Informática y Salud. NΊ 31 (2001). M-12746-1992
- Labajo, Gabriel, Herrera, Gerardo; Fernández, Marcos y otros.”Proyecto INMER: Herramienta Educativa para centros de atención a personas con retraso mental y autismo”. Congreso Iberoamericano de Tecnologías de Apoyo a la Discapacidad. IBERDISCAP-2000. ISBN-84-644-3253-5. Madrid
- F. Alcantud, G. Herrera et al.” Assesing Virtual Reality as a Tool for Support Imagination”. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 2398-pages 143-153.2002
- G. Herrera, A.Plasencia, G. Labajo, R. Jordan, C. de Pablo. Using’Ambient Intelligence’ for Compensating Intellectual Difficulties of People with Sever Learning Difficulties and/or Austistic Spectrum Disorders. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 3118-pages 969-975.2004
- G. Herrera, and, G. Labajo, Assessing B.A. Bar Device as a Tool For Supporting Labour Integration of a Severly Affected Person with Autism Who Carries Out Classifying Task. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 3118-pages 976-983.2004
