Researcher and game developer.
I have been the lead developer for Listen-In, a therapy game for older adults diagnosed with aphasia.
The game has been designed to deliver 100 hours of therapy in an engaging way.
The project is the result of a long-lasting collaboration with the neurotherapeutics group at UCL where the game has been developed through a series of iterations that culminated in a successful clinical trial.
Released in April 2021. The video present here is from the clinical trial version.
During the PhD my research focus was the detection of cognitive markers in Alzheimer's disease early stages.
For doing so I planned/design/develop tasks tailored to those brain regions that are primarily involved in the disease spread.
The effort consist in pushing the detection line well beyond the onset of the real disease, outmatching this way the results obtained from the standard neuropsychological test and giving the possibility of providing a more efficient treatment.
I use commercial VR technlogy for this specific development. In this video you can see the PIT (Path Integration Task), one of the experiments developed for this purpose.
The study has been published in a high impact journal.
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