Healthx Screenshot The University of Utah is this year’s winner in the “ Best Student Developed Serious Game” category of the Serious Games Showcase & Challenge with Healthx , a game to help treat and diagnose lazy eye in children. This is the University of Utah’s second consecutive winning year at I/ITSEC SGS&C. In 2014, University of Utah’s Entertainment Arts & Engineering (EAE) was awarded "Best Student Developed Serious Game" for CyberHeist . Working with researchers at the John A. Moran Eye Center , a team from the U created Healthx to help diagnose and treat lazy eye, which can lead to permanent visual impairment if left untreated. Fully controlled by eye movement, the "Serious Game" forces the lazy eye to move around the screen, which can strengthen and help find the right balance between the eyes. The game’s proposition is to train the weak muscles responsible for amblyopia or "lazy eye”, by using hardware that tracks
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