Nintendo Wii Remote Eyes Can Diagnose Strabismus

Researchers from Seoul National University College of Medicine have been using the Nintendo Wii game controller to help diagnose torticollis of ocular (eye disorders / Strabismus). Researchers to diagnose the patient with his head cocked to one side to compensate (offset) pathology of the eye.

Reported by Medgadget, researchers have reported findings that support the technology in the field of eye health in the latest issue in Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.

How the Wii game controller work? Infrared optical head tracking devices (IOHT) was created through two games to the Wii controller and connect it to a mechanical frame computer device via a Bluetooth connection.

Infrared LED placed on the frame and placed on the forehead of the patient. In this way, the movement of the head may be registered by the Wii game controller. Then, the researchers tried to compare these devices with standard equipment IOHT cervical motion (CROM).

The second tool is IOHT and CROM measurements were compared to the posture of the head of an adult one-dimensional and three dimensional.

Comparison in terms of accuracy, validity, and reliability of the Wii controller shows results very closely with the patients using the CROM device. However, with this IOHT device, the researchers acknowledge that the performance is very impressive, easy to use and lower cost.

Reportedly, this is one IOHT device to measure the posture of the head of the most widely used and has the potential to be used in daily ophthalmological practice.