Ongoing projects
Developing virtual reality based tasks for measuring upper limb function and coordination
This project is currently being run by Jack Evans, one of our PhD Students. We are currently recruiting dyspraxic adults and stroke survivors to take part in this project. If you're interested in taking part, please find Jack's contact details on the "Contact Us" page.
Jack is testing how two different virtual reality tasks - a circle drawing task and a movement-imitation task - can find differences between the movements of different groups of people.
Participants complete two different VR tasks. While they do these tasks, we will measure how they move their arms, eyes, and head. The data will be used to find interesting patterns in the way dyspraxic people/people with Developmental Coordination Disorder and people with stroke move, compared to people without these conditions.
We want to use these patterns to build useful Virtual Reality-based assessments of function and coordination for Dyspraxia/DCD, as well as for people with upper limb impairments and coordination difficulties, such as stroke survivors.