TY - GEN
T1 - Co-developing a virtual reality screening tool for developmental coordination disorder
AU - Buckingham, Gavin
AU - Du, Haoyang
AU - Allen, Kate L.
AU - Evans, Jack O.
AU - Hill, Liam
PY - 2025/6/23
Y1 - 2025/6/23
N2 - Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD, or dyspraxia) is a congenital disorder impacting motor skills in 5-6% of school-age children, often leading to difficulties in physical, social, and emotional development. Traditional diagnostic tools, while effective, can be resource-intensive, stress-inducing, and time consuming. There is potential for the motion tracking capabilities of consumer immersive Virtual Reality (VR) technologies to occupy the gspace' between survey-based screening and formal motor assessment used to diagnose this population. Here, we describe the process for the initial alpha development of motor assessment tasks in VR based on established tasks from literature, and our engagement with dyspraxic adults and children to co-develop a tool which could lay the foundation for a more accessible, objective, and engaging alternative to traditional diagnostic and screening tools.
AB - Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD, or dyspraxia) is a congenital disorder impacting motor skills in 5-6% of school-age children, often leading to difficulties in physical, social, and emotional development. Traditional diagnostic tools, while effective, can be resource-intensive, stress-inducing, and time consuming. There is potential for the motion tracking capabilities of consumer immersive Virtual Reality (VR) technologies to occupy the gspace' between survey-based screening and formal motor assessment used to diagnose this population. Here, we describe the process for the initial alpha development of motor assessment tasks in VR based on established tasks from literature, and our engagement with dyspraxic adults and children to co-develop a tool which could lay the foundation for a more accessible, objective, and engaging alternative to traditional diagnostic and screening tools.
KW - DCD
KW - diagnostic and screening tools
KW - dyspraxia
KW - VR
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105010317870
U2 - 10.1145/3713043.3731536
DO - 10.1145/3713043.3731536
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105010317870
T3 - Proceedings - 24th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2025
SP - 1091
EP - 1095
BT - Proceedings - 24th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2025
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 24th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2025
Y2 - 23 June 2025 through 26 June 2025
ER -