Cognitive cubes: a tangible user interface for cognitive assessment

  • Authors:

  • Ehud Sharlin;Yuichi Itoh;Benjamin Watson;Yoshifumi Kitamura;Steve Sutphen;Lili Liu

  • Affiliations:

  • University Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;Osaka University, Osaka, Japan;Northwestern University, Evanston, IL;Osaka University, Osaka, Japan;University Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;University Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Assessments of spatial, constructional ability are used widely in cognitive research and in clinical diagnosis of disease or injury. Some believe that three-dimensional (3D) forms of these assessments would be particularly sensitive, but difficulties with consistency in administration and scoring have limited their use. We describe Cognitive Cubes, a novel computerized tool for 3D constructional assessment that increases consistency and promises improvements in flexibility, reliability, sensitivity and control. Cognitive Cubes makes use of ActiveCube, a novel tangible user interface for describing 3D shape. In testing, Cognitive Cubes was sensitive to differences in cognitive ability and task, and correlated well to a standard paper-and-pencil 3D spatial assessment