Virtual multiple errands test: Reliability, usability and possible applications

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 191, Issue , 2013, Pages 38-42

  Pedroli, Elisa ^a   Cipresso, Pietro ^a   Serino, Silvia ^a   Pallavicini, Federica ^a   Albani, Giovanni ^a   Riva, Giuseppe ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Assessment; Executive Functions; Multiple Errand Test; NeuroVR; Psychometric Reliability; Psychometrics; Usability; Virtual Reality; VMET

Indexed keywords

USABILITY ENGINEERING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ASSESSMENT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; NEUROVR; PSYCHOMETRICS; USABILITY; VMET;

RELIABILITY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARKINSON DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84894257312     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-282-0-38     Document Type: Article

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