Playful interactions and serious games

Salah, Albert Ali; Schouten, Ben; Göbel, Stefan; Arnrich, Bert

doi:10.3233/ais-140261

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“…Growing evidence from research reveals that playfulness could serve to promote physical and emotional health, and subjective wellbeing (Rogerson et al, 2013;Waldman-Levi, Erez, & Katz, 2015), as well as greater levels of physical activity in later life (Fozard, Bouma, Franco, & Van Bronswijk, 2009;Proyer, 2014;Staempfli, 2007;Van Vleet & Feeney, 2015), Salah, Schouten, Go€bel & Arnrich, 2014). Play and playfulness also show promise in stim-ulating, engaging and enhancing social interaction for people with dementia.…”

Section: Playful Approaches For People With Dementiamentioning

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Engaging people with dementia in designing playful and creative practices: Co-design or co-creation?

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Stimulating active, social interactions for people with dementia is an important and timely challenge that merits continuing attention in design research. The idea of using participatory co-design to engage people with dementia is attracting increased interest. In this paper, we draw on our qualitative study that used a playful, participatory arts approach to explore the ways co-design could be implemented in a group of 12 people with dementia and their carers, and developed practical recommendations, in the form of a set of playing cards, for other researchers and caregivers to work in similar ways. The emphasis is on the value of play and playfulness, providing a 'magic circle' (Huizinga, 1955) that fosters the required conditions for a co-creative, co-design space. This aims to encourage social interaction between people with dementia, to stimulate imagination and creativity; and engage even the most the reticent, less confident members. Our observations, however, suggest that the exact notion and nature of co-design within the context of working with people with dementia is unclear. We critically explore whether such participatory creative practices that engage people with dementia can be considered as purely co-design. In conclusion, we argue that such interaction is better described as co-creation and that this definition can still embrace considerable contribution and involvement by people with dementia in a co-design process.

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Section: Playful Approaches For People With Dementiamentioning

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“…Play is a ubiquitous activity for all age groups [58] and playfulness refers to an attitude towards an activity in psychological, physical and emotional ways [61]. It can elicit emotion and intrinsic motivation in the absence of purposes and goals.…”

Section: Playful Experiencesmentioning

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A framework and immersive serious game for mild cognitive impairment

Lau

Agius

2021

Multimed Tools Appl

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Cognitive decline is common in the elderly. As a result, a range of cognitive rehabilitation games have been proposed to supplement or replace traditional rehabilitative training by offering benefits such as improved engagement. In this paper, we focus on mild cognitive impairment (MCI), an initial stage of cognitive decline that does not affect functioning in daily life, but which may progress towards more serious cognitive deteriorations, notably dementia. Unfortunately, while a variety of serious game frameworks and rehabilitative serious games have been proposed, there is a distinct lack of those which support the distinctive characteristics of MCI patients. Consequently, to optimise the advantages of serious games for MCI, we propose the MCI-GaTE (MCI-Game Therapy Experience) framework that may be used to develop serious games as effective cognitive and physical rehabilitation tools. The framework is derived from a combination of a survey of related research literature in the area, analysis of resident profiles from a nursing home, and in-depth interviews with occupational therapists (OTs) who work with MCI patients on a daily basis. The conceptual framework comprises four sectors that may be used to guide game design and development: an MCI player profile that represents the capabilities of a player with MCI, core gaming elements that support gameful and playful activities, therapeutic elements that support cognitive and physical rehabilitation through tasks and scenarios according to the player’s abilities, and motivational elements to enhance the player’s attitude towards the serious tasks. Together, they provide support for rehabilitation needs and may also serve as a set of comprehensive and established criteria by which an MCI serious game may be evaluated. To demonstrate the use of MCI-GaTE, we also present A-go!, an immersive gesture-based serious game that exploits the framework to enable MCI-diagnosed players to undertake therapeutic tasks supported by an assigned OT. Evaluation with OTs revealed that the immersive game potentially offers more effective support to MCI patients than traditional methods, contributing new possibilities for enhancing MCI rehabilitative training, while a comparative assessment of MCI-GaTE demonstrated that it provides a comprehensive approach not currently offered by state-of-the-art rehabilitative frameworks.

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“…Playful design, the mapping of playful experiences from games/toys to other non-game context experiences, has gained interest in recent years (Walsh et al 2010). Although it has been a subject of research (Ferrara, 2012;Deterding et al, 2013;Bekker et al, 2010;Salah et al, 2014) it has not been explored as widely in the area of health and ageing well and more precisely in engaging adults and older people with physical activity.…”

Section: Playful Design Playfulness and Tangible Play In Healthmentioning

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“…In addition to this, play is an inherently human aspect that stimulates wellbeing (McGonigal, 2011), especially when presented in the form of playful interactions -interactions that incorporate elements of fun and play (Salah et al, 2014)-as they encourage and facilitate environments where users are more interested in enjoying themselves than they are in achieving a specific task (Dekel et al, 2005).…”

Section: Playful Design Playfulness and Tangible Play In Healthmentioning

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“…Hence the development of ambient play environments provides an opportunity to design and develop playful interactions to stimulate social and physical play (Bekket et al, 2010). This is further reinforced by the design of tangible play artefacts, where physical artefacts are electronically augmented and enhanced to trigger various digital events to happen (Nam and Kim, 2011;Salah et al, 2014). The blending of tangible (physical) and digital elements have recently grown in popularity 1,2 within video games and toys too, with physical game pieces becoming a popular addition to traditional digital games.…”

Section: Playful Design Playfulness and Tangible Play In Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Role of Playfulness and Sensory Experiences in Design for Public Health and for Ageing Well

Tsekleves¹,

Darby²

2020

Sensory Arts and Design

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The chapter provides an insight into the role of design and sensory experiences in public health and ageing well through the lenses of playful design. It presents, through a number of relevant examples, the role of playfulness as a trigger for engaging people and especially older adults with physical exercise through tangible play. Emphasis is placed on the potential, benefits and challenges of designing playful sensory experiences and activities (interventions) for public health and ageing well. Following a review of the relevant literature on playfulness and sensory experiences and health, a number of projects that incorporate playfulness and sensory experiences are presented. This is followed by a presentation of the Active Parks case study. Active Parks co-created an interactive and playful walking trail that offers casual physical activity in one of Lancaster city's park. Working with the local community and a several key stakeholders a number of interactive and playful multisensory proof-of-concept prototypes were designed, developed and tested in the park. Based on the literature and the aforementioned case study a number of recommendations are provided on how to design playful sensory experiences for public health. This is the first paper of its kind to offer such practical recommendations that aim at public health and playfulness focusing on adults and older users. Keywords: playfulness, public health, ageing well; playful design, co-design, participatory design, interactive play, interaction design, design in healthcare. four key values and ten practical recommendations on the design of playful experiences for public health and ageing well in urban spaces. Related Work Playfulness There are several definitions of 'playfulness'. The most common ones widely accepted in the literature define 'playfulness' as a dispositional tendency to engage in play (Van Vleet and Feeney, 2015) or the predisposition to frame (or reframe) a situation in such a way as to provide oneself (and possibly others) with amusement, humour, and/or entertainment (Barnett, 2007). Play and being playful is how we first experience the world around us (Barnett, 1990), losing ourselves in play, whether it was creating a make-believe world, throwing a ball between classmates, teasing and role-playing with friends, etc. Unfortunately as we grow older we tend to distance ourselves from playfulness and get locked into the linear, problemsolution, adult mind-set. As Stanley Hall put it: "We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing" (Hall, 1904, pp 235). Although playfulness is traditionally associated with children, it is equally significant for adults. Van Vleet and Feeney (2015) identify in their review of the literature the importance of play behaviour and playfulness in adulthood and the need for more research in this area.

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Playful interactions and serious games

Cited by 11 publications

References 21 publications

Engaging people with dementia in designing playful and creative practices: Co-design or co-creation?

Engaging people with dementia in designing playful and creative practices: Co-design or co-creation?

A framework and immersive serious game for mild cognitive impairment

The Role of Playfulness and Sensory Experiences in Design for Public Health and for Ageing Well

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