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Using immersive virtual reality as a cognitive assessment tool for the elderly: a systematic literature review

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Introduction: Virtual reality (VR) tasks for cognitive assessment are increasingly being developed. VR can provide different levels of immersion and fully immersive tasks are said to be the more promising as they allow more ecologically valid measures. The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic literature review of immersive VR tasks for cognitive evaluation in the elderly in order to assess the scope of existing research in this field. Methods: Using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, a systematic review of the published literature on immersive VR tasks used on the elderly for cognitive assessment was conducted. Results: A total of 22 studies were included in this review out of 2838 screened articles. Immersive VR tasks provided measures for assessing memory (n=4), navigation and neglect (n=7), executive functions and daily activities (n=6), and global cognitive efficiency (n=5), which were mostly correlated with existing pencil and paper tasks. Furthermore, immersive VR tasks did not raise any major concern on feasibility aspects as subjects were able to go through them without any evidence of significant anxiety, cybersickness or usability difficulty. Conclusions: Immersive VR tasks are promising cognitive assess- ment tools for the elderly as they can serve both a classical diagnostic purpose and provide more ecological data. Further studies are needed in order to confirm these results as current literature suffers from methodological limitations.
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hal-04249978 , version 1 (19-10-2023)

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Laurent Zikos, Bruno Lenne, Florence Pasquier. Using immersive virtual reality as a cognitive assessment tool for the elderly: a systematic literature review. 16th International E-Congress of the European Geriatric Medicine Society, Oct 2020, Athens, Greece. ⟨hal-04249978⟩

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