Designing and evaluating the tabletop game experience for senior citizens

Mahmud, Abdullah Al; Mubin, Omar; Shahid, Suleman; Martens, Jean-Bernard

doi:10.1145/1463160.1463205

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“…The augmented dancing environment DanceAlong by Keyani et al [15] also addresses the issue of physical activity among senior citizens, aiming to motivate seniors to engage in dancing along with popular movie scenes. Another study found that playing brain-training games on a portable game console had a positive correlation with reported fun for an elderly age group (compared to a younger control group) suggesting cognitive challenges provide a satisfying gameplay mechanic for the elderly [19]. Finally, the ElderGames project by Gamberini et al [7] presents a tabletop gaming solution specifically designed to test and train cognitive abilities of elderly persons.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing and evaluating digital games for frail elderly persons

Gerling

Schulte

Masuch

2011

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology

111

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Game research increasingly addresses human factors of gaming. Though more and more seniors become players, game design for frail elderly has rarely been explored. This paper addresses game design for senior citizens experiencing age-related changes, especially cognitive and physical limitations. We introduce and evaluate the case study SilverPromenade, which is specifically aimed at providing institutionalized frail elderly with a new leisure activity. SilverPromenade allows players to go on virtual walks while accounting for special needs regarding game complexity, and simplistic interaction paradigms are provided using Nintendo's Wii Remote and the Balance Board for game control. Evaluation results suggest that despite age-related impairments, the game was generally accessible to elderly persons. Yet, differences between inexperienced and experienced players were observed which suggest that interaction problems may be reduced by engaging with games over a longer time. Findings also indicate that the engagement of elderly players transcends into their everyday life, and their social interaction increases among one another. Most importantly, the evaluation showed that games were perceived as enjoyable leisure activity, supporting the approach of applying digital games to raise the quality of life among frail elderly by fostering activity.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing and evaluating digital games for frail elderly persons

Gerling

Schulte

Masuch

2011

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology

111

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“…This video recording technique was used by some researchers such as [16][17][18], while the use of screen footage is intended to see the exploration or exploration activities of users used by researchers such as [19][20].…”

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Usability testing on game interface design using video-based behavior analysis

Ahmad¹,

Abdullasim²,

Suaib³

2018

IJET

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The objective of this study is to quantitatively incorporate user observation into usability evaluation of game interface design. In this study, an experiment was conducted to monitor and record users' behavior using built in video-cam. The experiment was done after the user play "A Garuda" game. All the character movement controlled by user were captured and recorded for comparative analysis. There were about 20 people involved as a subject for this experiment. The data from video recordings were coded with Noldus Observer XT in order to find usage patterns and thus to gather quantitative data for analyzing the GUI effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction. The result of user's interaction towards the design of game's GUI able to give additional information for the game designer to develop a better responsive game toward its usability. The effect of user's control and emotion that can be seen from user's face will give the information needed to be considered in game development. Previous studies mostly focusing on evaluating the usability with performance measures by only looking at task results. Thus, at the end of this study, a method is proposed by incorporating user observation into usability evaluation of game design interfaces.

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“…Furthermore, digital tabletop games have been designed to meet the needs of an elderly audience. Mahmud et al [15] found that senior citizens primarily enjoy simple card games such as poker and designed a tabletop game in which players have to draw cards in order to move checkers on a projected grid. ElderGames [9] is a table-based digital game for elderly users that combines game elements with cognitive challenges and sensomotor training.…”

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Exergame design for elderly users

Gerling

Schild

Masuch

2010

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology

114

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In this paper, we discuss chances and challenges of game design for an elderly audience with a focus on the development of safe and usable exertion games for frail senior citizens. Based on an analysis of theoretical constraints, we conducted a case study which implements different balance tasks for elderly players featuring the Nintendo Wii Balance Board which encourages users to actively engage in game play. Furthermore, we tested the feasibility of the board as input device for our case study SilverBalance. Our results indicate that age-related impairments influence the use of video games among frail elderly in many respects, hence their needs have to be considered during the design process. In this context, our paper provides a foundation for future research regarding digital games for the elderly.

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Designing and evaluating the tabletop game experience for senior citizens

Cited by 58 publications

References 8 publications

Designing and evaluating digital games for frail elderly persons

Designing and evaluating digital games for frail elderly persons

Usability testing on game interface design using video-based behavior analysis

Exergame design for elderly users

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