ZuVision - Protótipo de Jogo Digital Dicóptico para Tratamento de Ambliopia Anisometrópica Infantil

Abstract

Visual health plays a crucial role in child development, significantly affecting learning, social interaction, and overall well-being. This dissertation aims to leverage technological advances to develop a 2D dichoptic mobile game prototype, named ZuVision. The proposal seeks to offer an innovative and engaging solution that can act as a complement to traditional methods - occlusion, refractive correction, Bangerter filters, surgeries, and perceptual learning - in the treatment of anisometropic amblyopia, using the red-blue technique. This technique consists of using glasses with red and blue filters so that each eye receives different visual stimuli. The aim is to evaluate its preliminary usability, identify the advantages and disadvantages of its application, and establish important guidelines for creating this type of experience. To achieve this, the quasi- experimental research methodology includes a systematic literature review, a focus group with ophthalmologists, and user testing to assess children's first contact with the prototype. As expected, health professionals recognised the potential of the created prototype, identified important guidelines to be considered in the future, and the tests demonstrated the prototype's usability. In the future, the prototype could serve as a foundation for a final dichoptic digital game which, after longer and clinically supervised testing, could be adjusted and implemented.