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Description: Stroke is considered to be the most common cause of death (Lozano et al., 2010) and the third most common cause of disability (Murray et al., 2010). It can leave a person with impairments such as hemianopia and/or hemineglect where the patient has lateralised cortical blindness and/or a deficit in attention to the contralesional side of space. The MonAmour is a target search test that evaluates egocentric and allocentric hemineglect using the REAplan® robot by Axinesis. Although the test shows excellent validity and reliability, it does not evaluate and control forhemianopia, despite the well-known associations between visual field defects and hemineglect. In this poster, we propose a new test that will be implemented on the REATouch® tactile board by Axinesis, along with the MonAmour test. The aim of our new test is to examine the patient’s visual fields and detect hemianopia. It is composed of dual control and target detection tasks. We propose to adopt an approach of including practitioners in the design process, and then validating efficiency, effectiveness and measure satisfaction with patients. The poster presentation will focus on the design cycle of the test development, and will propose the methods of validation, and the added value that this test brings to neuropsychology testing.