Serious Game iDO: Towards Better Education in Dementia Care

Maskeliūnas, Rytis; Damaševiˇcius, Robertas; Lethin, Connie; Paulauskas, Andrius; Esposito, Anna; Catena, Mauro; Aschettino, Vincenzo

doi:10.3390/info10110355

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“…The past success of traditional video-games has led the scientific community to adapt visual simulation, virtual reality and games to other contexts of application, such as health, education, law, and so on [19][20][21][22]. One approach currently on the rise is gamification [7], as a part of the Engineering curricula for education.…”

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A Cloud Game-Based Educative Platform Architecture: The CyberScratch Project

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The employment of modern technologies is widespread in our society, so the inclusion of practical activities for education has become essential and useful at the same time. These activities are more noticeable in Engineering, in areas such as cybersecurity, data science, artificial intelligence, etc. Additionally, these activities acquire even more relevance with a distance education methodology, as our case is. The inclusion of these practical activities has clear advantages, such as (1) promoting critical thinking and (2) improving students’ abilities and skills for their professional careers. There are several options, such as the use of remote and virtual laboratories, virtual reality and game-based platforms, among others. This work addresses the development of a new cloud game-based educational platform, which defines a modular and flexible architecture (using light containers). This architecture provides interactive and monitoring services and data storage in a transparent way. The platform uses gamification to integrate the game as part of the instructional process. The CyberScratch project is a particular implementation of this architecture focused on cybersecurity game-based activities. The data privacy management is a critical issue for these kinds of platforms, so the architecture is designed with this feature integrated in the platform components. To achieve this goal, we first focus on all the privacy aspects for the data generated by our cloud game-based platform, by considering the European legal context for data privacy following GDPR and ISO/IEC TR 20748-1:2016 recommendations for Learning Analytics (LA). Our second objective is to provide implementation guidelines for efficient data privacy management for our cloud game-based educative platform. All these contributions are not found in current related works. The CyberScratch project, which was approved by UNED for the year 2020, considers using the xAPI standard for data handling and services for the game editor, game engine and game monitor modules of CyberScratch. Therefore, apart from considering GDPR privacy and LA recommendations, our cloud game-based architecture covers all phases from game creation to the final users’ interactions with the game.

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Section: Gamification In Educationmentioning

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“…There is no strict age restriction for the users we target, resulting in a requirement for the application to be elaborate, engaging and effective for young adults and elderly users alike. In terms of physical and mental condition, our focus group does not include patients with chronic mental impairments, such as dementia (Maskeliūnas et al, 2019), or athletes on a training program (Guggenberger et al, 2021); we mostly focus on rehabilitation after injuries and accidents, with low to medium impact on the patients' mobility, likely to be improved through a non-surgical intervention, patients who suffered mild strokes, with limited, yet noticeable impact on their mobility, similar to Noveletto et al (2018), and people over 50, who need to exercise regularly to maintain their general physical and mental condition. An important requirement for our design was to make sure that physicians or general practitioners would be able to prescribe specific activities for each patient, accompanied with measurable objectives and progress indicators; our system should be able to suggest parts of those personalized plans, which would then be approved by the physician.…”

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Gameful Design of an Application for Patients in Rehabilitation

Menychtas¹,

Galliakis²,

Pardos³

et al. 2022

Front. Comput. Sci.

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The design process of any interactive application is an important part of its lifecycle, since it largely defines its structure, means of interaction with the users and its actual content. In the case of applications related to medical uses and self-help, it is even more important, given the aims of the application, the diversity of target users and the urgent need for increased retention. In this article, we present a gameful design process for a mobile application targeted toward patients in rehabilitation, implementing concepts related to increasing user rapport and motivation through gamification, and means to offer guidance and personalized services to improve user experience. Both gamification and personalization build on narrative concepts, by putting patients in the place of a “hero”, offering them the opportunity to overcome “challenges” and receive a clear view of their progress (a.k.a. a “hero's journey”), both in terms of physical and mental condition. Finally, we discuss measurable indicators used to evaluate the application in terms of the progress that patients showed, their motivation and interest, and degree of adherence to the exercise plans.

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“…Since the times when the seminal works of Huizinga [1] and later Caillois [2] were originally published, the importance of games in both society and the economy has grown considerably [3,4]. Games were adopted to improve motivation in various contexts, from project management [5] to elderly care [6].…”

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Introducing Sustainable Development Topics into Computer Science Education: Design and Evaluation of the Eco JSity Game

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With increasing awareness of the advantages of game-based learning, there is a growing number of studies showing its application to both computer science education and sustainable development education. In this paper, we describe, with the example of the Eco JSity application, how both of these areas can be combined into a single tool. The presented evaluation results showed that despite incorporating the sustainable development topics into both the theme and mechanics of the educational game, both the usefulness and ease-of-use of the application were still assessed positively by students. We also identified three clusters of students depending on their attitude towards combining education on computer science and sustainable development. We concluded that game-based learning provided a capable means of incorporating sustainable development topics into teaching of unrelated technical skills.

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Serious Game iDO: Towards Better Education in Dementia Care

Cited by 28 publications

References 57 publications

A Cloud Game-Based Educative Platform Architecture: The CyberScratch Project

A Cloud Game-Based Educative Platform Architecture: The CyberScratch Project

Gameful Design of an Application for Patients in Rehabilitation

Introducing Sustainable Development Topics into Computer Science Education: Design and Evaluation of the Eco JSity Game

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