A user interface for spatial cognitive assessment using ActiveCube

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Sharlin, Ehud
  • Kitamura, Yoshifumi
  • Watson, Benjamin
  • Sutphen, Steve
  • Liu, Lili
  • Itoh, Yuichi
  • Kishino, Fumio

• 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 a novel computerized user interface for 3D constructional assessment that increases consistency and promises improvements in flexibility, reliability, sensitivity and control. This user interface makes use of ActiveCube, which a user can input 3D shape to the computer in real-time. In testing, the proposal system was sensitive to differences in cognitive ability and task and correlated well to a standard paper-and-pencil 3D spatial assessment.

• Date created

  2006

• Subjects / Keywords

  • ActiveCube
  • Cognition--testing
  • Spatial ability

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3GF0N683

• License

  © 2006 Yuichi Itoh et al. This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited.