From prototypes to comparable evidence: A Design–Mechanism–Measurement view of AR gamified rehabilitation

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dc.contributor.authorShen, Runkun
dc.contributor.authorLinehan, Conor
dc.contributor.authorMevlevioglu, Deniz
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T11:50:07Z
dc.date.available2026-07-09T11:50:07Z
dc.date.issued2026-06-08
dc.description.abstractAugmented Reality (AR) gamification shows growing promise as an approach to the design of rehabilitation tools, but evidence on intervention effectiveness remains difficult to synthesise and compare across systems and studies. As part of a broader scoping review, we analyse 21 papers that report on AR gamified rehabilitation and examine how design choices, mechanisms, and measurement practices are connected in those studies. Our analysis reveals a recurring Design – Mechanism – Measurement (D-M-M) misalignment: systems increasingly combine heterogeneous AR delivery and sensing pipelines with gamified feedback, yet intervention mechanisms are rarely specified as testable pathways, and evaluations more often emphasise usability and feasibility of tools than indicators of rehabilitation change. We argue that future work should report AR gamified rehabilitation as an explicit intervention logic and make minimal D-M-M claims linking core design ingredients to hypothesised mechanisms and aligned measures. The next phase of this work will extend the same analytic lens across the wider review corpus to examine whether this pattern is specific to rehabilitation or reflects broader reporting tendencies in AR gamified physical activity research.en
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dc.identifier.authororcidShen, Runkun
dc.identifier.authororcidLinehan, Conor§0000-0002-7654-6697
dc.identifier.authororcidMevlevioglu, Deniz§0000-0003-2776-1304
dc.identifier.citationShen, R, Linehan, C & Mevlevioglu, D 2026, From prototypes to comparable evidence: A Design–Mechanism–Measurement view of AR gamified rehabilitation. in IMX 2026 - Proceedings of the 2026 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences. IMX 2026 - Proceedings of the 2026 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, Association for Computing Machinery , pp. 514-518. https://doi.org/10.1145/3788851.3815034
dc.identifier.doi10.1145/3788851.3815034
dc.identifier.endpage518
dc.identifier.isbn979-8-4007-2448-0
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-2776-1304/work/217051366
dc.identifier.startpage514
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/19038
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIMX 2026 - Proceedings of the 2026 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences
dc.relation.urihttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105042361021
dc.rightsPublisher Copyright: © 2026 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).
dc.rights.accessrightsopen access
dc.rights.licensenameAttribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.statusPeer reviewed
dc.subjectAugmented Reality
dc.subjectDesign-Mechanism-Measurement
dc.subjectDigital health
dc.subjectGamification
dc.subjectRehabilitation
dc.subjectSensing and Tracking
dc.titleFrom prototypes to comparable evidence: A Design–Mechanism–Measurement view of AR gamified rehabilitationen
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