A suite of games to estimate the severity of nystagmus

Fliege, Jorg, Georgieva, Venezia, Self, Jay, Stallwood, James, Wanick, Vanissa and Watts, Adam (2025) A suite of games to estimate the severity of nystagmus. Dias, Nuno, Henry, John, Rodrigues, Nuno, Vilaca, Joso L., Duque, Duarte and Oliveira, Eva (eds.) In SeGAH 2025 - 2025 IEEE 13th Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health. IEEE. 7 pp . (doi:10.1109/SeGAH65397.2025.11168430).

Abstract

Nystagmus is a condition of rapid, uncontrollable eye movement. It affects ca. 24 out of 1 0, 0 0 0 people in the general population. Measuring the impact of nystagmus on visual acuity remains challenging, as patients often perform well on standard tests like Snellen charts. For this reason we have created a suite of games, Brightsight Burgers, with simple mechanics measuring specific player performance metrics related to nystagmus. Our preliminary result indicate the potential effectiveness of games as tools for health assessment in this context. We provide a detailed description of the games developed, the incorporation of player performance metrics for assessment of the severity of the nystagmus condition, and describe results of a preliminary analysis and insights gained. These preliminary results indicate that healthy subjects take significant less time to finish any of the assigned tasks in any of the games developed, as compared to subjects with nystagmus.

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Author: Jorg Fliege

Author: Jay Self

Author: Vanissa Wanick

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