Cognitive Cubes
| We have created a system for automatic evaluation of 3D spatial constructive ability. The system is based on the ActiveCube interface, produced by Yoshifumi Kitamura and his lab at Osaka University. Automated cognitive assessments of any kind are rare, and to our knowledge, Cognitive Cubes is the first automated assessment of 3D constructive ability. |
| Project members: Ehud Sharlin (U Osaka), Ben Watson (NU), Lili Liu (U Alberta), Steve Sutphen (U Alberta), Yuichi Itoh (U Osaka) & Yoshifumi Kitamura (U Osaka). |
Publications
| E. Sharlin, B.A. Watson, Y. Kitamura, F. Kishino & Y. Itoh (2004). On Humans, Spatiality and Tangible User Interfaces (pdf). Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Special issue on tangible user interfaces. To appear. |
| E. Sharlin, Y. Itoh, B. A. Watson, Y. Kitamura, S. Sutphen, L. Liu & F. Kishino, Spatial tangible user interfaces for cognitive assessment and training, (2004). Proc. Bio-ADIT 2004 (Lausanne, Switzerland). 410-425. |
| Y. Itoh, E. Sharlin, Y. Kitamura, F. Kishino, B.A. Watson, S. Sutphen, L. Liu (2002). A user interface for cognitive assessment with ActiveCube. IPSJ SIGNotes Human Interface Abstract No.098 � 009. Information Processing Society of Japan. |
| E. Sharlin, Y. Itoh, B.A. Watson, Y. Kitamura, S. Sutphen & L. Liu (2002). Cognitive cubes: a tangible user interface for cognitive assessment (pdf). Talk (pdf). Proc. ACM CHI: Computer-Human Interaction (Minneapolis, April), 347-354. |
Imagery
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Matching with ActiveCube Here a participant in our study compares his physical ActiveCube construct to the virtual standard he is trying to match. |
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A 3D virtual standard shape A virtual closeup of a Cognitive Cubes standard. The standard rotated slowly, enabling users to match complex shapes. |