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Target Clientele
Children and adults (6 years and older) who:
Target Skills
Mode: Visual
Principal skill(s) targeted: Hand-eye coordination within a visual tracking activity
Visual tracking involves following an object's movements in time and space by providing an appropriate motor response. It also require the client’s sustained attention. Indeed, visual tracking mainly calls upon coordination, sustained attention, and orientation skills. Hand-eye coordination is particularly involved in this program because of the continued use of the mouse as the response method.
Exercises
Levels Stimuli Classes: Sole 27
Scenario and task: The client is playing a video game. The task consists of controlling the movements of an object (a dot) placed within a square that is randomly moving around the screen. The client must do so over various lengths of time. The goal is to succeed in controlling the object so that it does not collide with the square’s borders. Clients having difficulty may take a break by pressing the mouse's right-hand button; this stops the box from moving and makes the mouse's cursor appear.
Program specific response mode(s): Use the mouse to move the ball within the square.
Feedback: When the time is up, the square disappears and the number of collisions is indicated on the screen.
Difficulty Level Variables
Level Completion Criterion: The client moves to another level when he/she makes no or few collisions and does not take a break.
The exam
There is no exam offered for this program. To assess mastery of this program’s contents, refer to the Hand-Eye Coordination exam.
Background
Instructions
« Using the mouse, move the dot to avoid colliding with the square’s boundaries. »