Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2010

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15399-0

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“…TV) screen in front of the player. Five studies used a remote control (four used Wiimote; one used a joystick) (18,22,23,37,38). The Wiimote is used as a remote control and features different buttons.…”

Section: Input and Output Devicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Buttons on the Wiimote are pressed and released for enter purposes. One study modified the Wiimote by providing a "Wii Pistol" (a case for the Wiimote) for better a handgrip and reduced wrist movement amplitude and additionally programmed all buttons having the same enter function (18). Another study modified the Wiimote by covering all but one button on the Wiimote (38).…”

Section: Input and Output Devicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The advantage of gesture control over a remote control is that PwD do not need to familiarize with new devices and learn and remember different functions of buttons. Studies that used remote controls often reported that PwD had difficulties in operating the devices and needed extensive help by caregivers (18,37). From my personal work experience with the MobiAssist remote control, I observed that PwD often did not understand when to press which button to log in the correct answer out of four answer options shown on the screen.…”

Section: Input and Output Devicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Regarding the scope, a great variety of SG interventions was reported. One study administered for example a music intervention where PwD could play a virtual keyboard (18). In another study, PwD had to scratch virtual bubbles floating over a screen (19).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Additionally, a non-systematic literature search on studies comprising SG for PwD was conducted and relevant articles (only inclusion criteria were SG and PwD) were screened. The included studies aimed, for example, at improving behavioral symptoms, cognitive performance, balance and gait (18,19,21), but also exploring acceptability, pleasure and social engagement (19,20). Personal work experience was contributed by one of the authors (CD) who worked as researcher in a SG project called "MobiAssist" (26), which was specifically designed for, and administered to, PwD.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Recommendations on the Design of Serious Games for People with Dementia

Dietlein¹,

Bock²

2019

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Game-Based Learning

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Dementia is a progressive syndrome affecting cognition, motor abilities and behavior. Serious games are an emerging treatment alternative but benefits have not been found for people with dementia yet. One reason may be that serious games were not well adapted. The purpose of this article is to give informed recommendations on the design and implementation of serious games for people with dementia that future studies can apply and thus may find significant effects. The methodology applied was deriving information from existing literature in combination with experience from personal work in the field. Main findings are: implementation of well-contrasting icons; first-person game perspective; gesture control; personalized game content; combination of only one cognitive and one motor skill; implementation as supervised group activity. In conclusion, the recommendations are a novelty and represent a profound guidance in the design and implementation of serious games for people with dementia

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Section: Input and Output Devicementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Input and Output Devicementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Input and Output Devicementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Recommendations on the Design of Serious Games for People with Dementia

Dietlein¹,

Bock²

2019

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Game-Based Learning

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Structural testing for message‐passing concurrent programs: an extended test model

Souza

Zaluska

2012

Concurrency and Computation

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SUMMARYDeveloping high-quality, error-free message-passing concurrent programs is not trivial. Although a number of different primitives with associated semantics are available to assist such development, they often increase the complexity of the testing process. In this paper, we extend our previous test model for messagepassing programs and present new structural testing criteria, taking into account additional features used in this paradigm, such as collective communication, non-blocking sends, distinct semantics for non-blocking receives, and persistent operations. Our new model also recognizes that sender primitives cannot always be matched with every receive primitive. This improvement allows us to remove statically a significant number of infeasible synchronization edges that would otherwise have to be analyzed later by the tester. In this paper, the test model is presented using the Message-Passing Interface standard; however, our new model has been designed to be flexible, and it can be configured to support a range of different messagepassing environments or languages. We have carried out case studies showing the applicability of the new test model to represent message-passing programs and also to reveal errors, mainly those errors related to inter-process communication. In addition to increasing the number of features supported by the test model, we have also reduced the overall cost of testing significantly. Our case studies suggest that the number of synchronization edges can be reduced by up to 93%, mainly by eliminating infeasible edges between unmatchable communication primitives. The main contribution of the paper is to present a more flexible test model that provides improved coverage for message-passing programs and at the same time reduces the cost of testing significantly.

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