TRAINING PROGRAM FOR ASSESSMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF INTERACTION WITH VIDEO GAME INTERFACES

摘要

Interactive interfaces provide an environment to a user suitable for simultaneously assessing and/or training skills of the user corresponding to different types of cognitive and motor skills utilized in performing certain tasks or operating other types of software programs (e.g., a competitive video game). The interface displays different elements to the user within multiple display areas that prompt the user to perform different types of actions over overlapping time periods, allowing for different types of skills such as the user's mechanical skills, executive function, background processing, and situational awareness ability to be assessed and trained. In addition, the simultaneous assessment/training of multiple skills through simultaneous prompting of different input or action types allows for additional skills, e.g., multitasking ability, to be assessed or trained, where such assessment/training would not be possible if the user was only prompted to perform one type of input or action during a time period.