Serious games for health

Wattanasoontorn, Voravika; Boada, Imma; García, Rubén J.; Sbert, Mateu

doi:10.1016/j.entcom.2013.09.002

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“…In addition, the enhancement of hardware has helped in the process of immersion and improvement of user's experience by using image recognition, movement and sound techniques, such as the Microsoft Kinect Sensor (KS) [7]. This has allowed the use of commercial games, which focuses exclusively for entertainment, in the treatment of several diseases such as Parkinson's disease, Stroke, Huntington's disease, and Cerebral Palsy [8].…”

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NuSense: A Sensor-Based Framework for Ambient Awareness applied in Game Therapy Monitoring

Costa¹,

Paiva²,

Menezes³

et al. 2016

International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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-the usage of technologies for the treatment of patients is constantly emerging. A recent trend is the usage of games for healthcare, mainly in motor rehabilitation. The entertainment facet of the game attracts the attention of patients making them more engaged in the treatment. A difficult in the usage of commercial games is that they require full attention of the healthcare professionals, since they were not created to this purpose. To contour this kind of situation, decreasing the attention demanded by healthcare professionals, tailor-made games with monitoring capabilities have been developed. The problem with this approach is that these games falls short of entertainment, compromising their playfulness. Given this scenario, we believe that by adding monitoring capabilities to environments in which commercial games are used for health treatment is the best approach for game therapy. Therefore, it is necessary to create a mechanism that helps developers on building applications to monitoring patients' pre-determined characteristics during a gameplay. In this paper, we propose the NuSense, a sensor-based framework to support the development of applications to automatically monitoring people while they are playing electronic games as a health therapy.

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confidence: 99%

NuSense: A Sensor-Based Framework for Ambient Awareness applied in Game Therapy Monitoring

Costa¹,

Paiva²,

Menezes³

et al. 2016

International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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“…Serious games are computer games which are developed for purposes other than just entertainment. Serious games which are designed for health purposes can be used to educate and train patients and healthcare professionals (Wattanasoontorn et al, 2013). Studies have shown that carefully designed games can have a positive impact on the health behaviour of young people and those with cancer, and that games can be used for effective disease management and disease-related knowledge (Davis et al, 2004;Kato et al, 2008;Reichlin et al, 2011b).…”

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PROCEE: a PROstate Cancer Evaluation and Education serious game for African Caribbean men

Cosma

Brown

Shopland

et al. 2016

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Purpose -Prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in men in the UK. Black men are in a higher prostate cancer risk group possibly due to inherent genetic factors. The purpose of this paper is to introduce PROstate Cancer Evaluation and Education (PROCEE), an innovative serious game aimed at providing prostate cancer information and risk evaluation to black African-Caribbean men. Design/methodology/approach -PROCEE has been carefully co-designed with prostate cancer experts, prostate cancer patients and members of the black African-Caribbean community in order to ensure that it meets the real needs and expectations of the target audience. Findings -During the co-design process, the users defined an easy to use and entertaining game which can effectively raise awareness, inform users about prostate cancer and their risk, and encourage symptomatic men to seek medical attention in a timely manner. Originality/value -During focus group evaluations, users embraced the game and emphasised that it can potentially have a positive impact on changing user behaviour among high risk men who are experiencing symptoms and who are reluctant to visit their doctor.

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“…General games have an explicit objective, which is to entertain the players. Where serious games have an implicit objective to serve depends on the purpose of the games (Wattanasoontorn et al, 2013).That implicit objective must be designed by subject matter experts in a particular area. Figure 1 illustrates the elements of serious games argued by Wattanasoontorn et al (2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There are a number of serious games types such as educational games, commercial games, training games, and so forth. They can be used to train professionals (Wattanasoontorn et al, 2013;Graafland et al, 2012;Kapp, 2012), to help learning process (Chowanda & Prasetio, 2012;Chowanda et al, 2014;Kapp, 2012), to educate the public (Bowser et al, 2013), make the public aware of a new product (Huotari & Hamari, 2011;Rampoldi-Hnilo & Snyder, 2013). Schell (2014) argues that it requires four core elements to craft a game.The first is Mechanics, a set of procedures or rules in a game.…”

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confidence: 99%