This article will help you understand how games can help with hand-eye coordination. It should be used as a guide only and you can improve your knowledge by looking at articles that we have linked to below.
One of the positive impact that games have had on society has been the improvement of player hand-eye coordination. The improved hand-eye coordination is not only evident when playing games but has also been see to improve other life skills as a result of spending times honing skills as a gamer. Recent studies (Wii-habilitation) have shown that gaming platforms such as the Nintendo Wii have been used in the rehabilitation of patients. It is thought that the motions of the game and how the game play requires good hand-eye coordination mimic real life movements required by sports like golf, bowling or tennis that are included with the Wii fit game. Game play can help patients recover more quickly and develop hand eye coordination required by sports players who are trying to recover to full fitness. In addition to this it has also be noted that video games help with reflexes and studies show that surgeons who played video games are generally more skilled than those you don’t play games. The article at: Wate.com states that:
“Researchers found that doctors who spent at least three hours a week playing video games made about 37% less mistakes in laparoscopic surgery and performed the task 27% faster than their counterparts who did not play video games.”
Studies at digital trends have shown that games definitely help increase reaction times due to improved handeye coordination. The study states that:
“Expert gamers located target objects on a busy computer screen an average of 100 milliseconds more quickly than novices”
. Another benefit of improved hand eye coordination due to time spent playing games is improved spacial awareness. A study at National Geographic shows that:
Action video gamers tend to be more attune to their surroundings while performing tasks like driving down a residential street, where they may be more likely to pick out a child running after a ball than a non-video gamer.
The studies have shown that gamers have increased visual awareness and can track objects visually 30% better than a non gamer. The findings also show that games can be used to rehabilitate the visually impaired and help train soldiers preparing for war. The study states that:
It is certainly good training for people in situations where they need to detect things in their visual environment at any time in any location, like ground troops going through uncharted territory.
These are only some of the benefits of improved hand eye coordination associated with gaming. It has been proved that playing games does indeed help individuals improve skills that can be used in other areas apart from gaming. The increased training of reacting to game play through sudden and skilled control of a playing character can definitely improve player hand-eye coordination. With the advancement in gaming towards creating real-world simulators surely the advances in improving hand-eye coordination for specific tasks in non gaming situations will continue to improve and provide safe training facilities for a range of professions over the coming years. As well as this we can say that gaming in itself especially as a professional gamer is a skilled profession where constant practice and improved hand-eye coordination can help a professional gamer hone their skills and see improved results over time. Using games to practice for real-life activities will definitely see improved hand-eye coordination and in time games will become so realistic that the virtual world will be 100% life like and testing can take place to ensure hand-eye coordination needed for specific professions can be trained just as much as the theoretical skills needed to do the job.
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