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    Design and Investigation of the Impact of Using Virtual Reality Games on the Elderly’s Cognitive Impairments

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Jamei, Mohammad Moein (Author) ; Meghdari, Ali (Supervisor) ; Alemi, Minoo (Supervisor) ; Taheri, Alireza (Co-Supervisor)
    Abstract
    The process of aging is accompanied by problems that can affect the daily activities of an elderly. Recent studies have shown that the use of virtual reality technology provides a variety of diagnostic methods and clinical systems to prevent and delay cognitive aging to ensure the normal life of the elderly. In this project, efforts have been made to design some virtual reality-based games focusing on memory and recall in the form of three scenarios of finding address, finding car, and virtual-reality based maze game for the elderly to prevent cognitive decline and developing the dementia so that the difficulty of the game level ahead of each elderly can be adjusted according to his or her...