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VR practical significance: Researchers will launch VR games to treat autistic children

2025-01-27 08:56:59|Myriagame |source：minecraft skins

To find a way to help children with autism, researchers Gail Alvares came up with a very simple way.

She said: "We all like games. We know that children like games. Why do we not develop a game that can be used as part of the course of treatment?"

As part of the research organization of the University of Western Australia and Telethons Kids Institute, Alvares is developing a game, hoping to help autism children master important social skills.

This game is temporarily named "Frankie and Friends", which aims to help autism children handle social information.

She explained: "Some of the difficulties that some autistic children are willing to encounter are to focus on social information. They may not establish eye contact with others, maybe they are more willing to put their attention on items."

If parents, teachers, or therapists have learning tools to guide their children's attention and help autism children focus on the other person in social networking, especially the face, then this will have a very positive impact.

Alvares's three games are for children aged 5-12. The protagonist of these games is a sausage dog called Frankie. Frankie needs to help to find his friends.

She said: "All these three (games) are especially for social ability. We believe that at least some of them will make autism children feel that it is difficult. The game will teach children to distinguish the emotions of other people, or pay attention to pay attention to the emotions, or pay attention to pay attention toPutting on the face of others rather than an object, and there is also the ability called common attention.

These games are very interesting, so children do not realize that they are actually being trained.The game does not involve language skills or text instructions.

She added: "This is specifically targeted at autistic children, because we know that for children with autism, their cognitive ability and language ability are different."

Although the prospect of this game is very broad.Alvares said that the research team hopes that there is enough experiments to prove that this is feasible, and then open it to the public.

This game that helps autism (not only limited to entertainment) is an emerging field.But in Alvares, only a small number of games are effective.

Perhaps it is worse. Most games are not interesting enough, cannot be fully invested, and do not use children to enjoy the game as a priority option.

She said: "We let children play these games at home, and measure their eyes through eye movement to measure where they actually look at in the real social environment."

Alvares is worried that the parents of autistic children have paid too much. She pointed out: "If there is sufficient evidence, then we hope to launch the market. Parents of autistic children have paid a lot of money for many things."

Once "Frankie and Friends" starts, Alvares' team hopes to create a platform and start developing a series of other games to help children with autism.This will even be promoted to dentist and hairdresser.

She explained: "What we think that children can do is actually a huge challenge for autism children."

It is not a waste of time. These games can help autism children respond to some of the most difficult challenges.

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