Complete Motion Control of a Serious Game against Obesity in Children

Scarle, Simon; Dunwell, Ian; Bashford-Rogers, Thomas; Selmanović, Elmedin; Debattista, Kurt; Chalmers, Alan; Powell, John; Robertson, Wendy

doi:10.1109/vs-games.2011.48

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“…These serious games are not used only for treatment of diseases, but also for physical, mental, and social well-being treatments. These include obesity [24], [25], phobias [26], [27], diabetes [28], [29], autism [30], [31], [32] and many others. A complete literature survey on serious games for health can be found in work by Wattanasoontorn et al [33], that also classifies them by game purpose, functionality, stage of disease and by player's wellness and analyzes each game based on different functionalities.…”

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confidence: 99%

An interactive E-book with an educational game for children with developmental disorders: A pilot user study

Pištoljević

Hulusić

2017

2017 9th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications (VS-Games)

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Abstract-Children diagnosed with Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), as one of the most complex neurodevelopmental disabilities, are characterized by different brain and functioning development, distinct interaction with the environment and different learning patterns, language and social skills impairments, and repetitive auto-stimulating restricting behaviors. It has been shown that computer-assisted intervention is much more attention captivating and interesting to children compared with a classic approach to teaching, allowing for faster acquisition of skills. This makes these tools and the technology highly suitable for teaching children with autism basic developmental skills. In addition, interactive electronic books showed positive outcomes for comprehension and information acquisition in children with ASD, while decreasing inappropriate children behavior in the classroom. In this paper a pilot user study on an e-book with an embedded educational game for children with developmental disorders was presented. The results show that the e-book can be efficiently used for teaching children with ASD basic developmental skills and that the learned skills can be efficiently transfered to new media and environments. The framework will provide preschool children with and without disabilities with appropriate educational software, to build up their early cognitive abilities and school readiness skills, and promote incorporating technology as part of the educational and pedagogical process in schools.

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confidence: 99%

An interactive E-book with an educational game for children with developmental disorders: A pilot user study

Pištoljević

Hulusić

2017

2017 9th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications (VS-Games)

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“…O Tito Bico [22] é um jogo sério desenvolvido para Wii. O objetivo do jogo é combater a obesidade em crianças através de movimentos e através da promoção de dietas saudáveis.…”

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Octopus: A gamification model to aid in ubiquitous care of chronic diseases

Paim

Barbosa

2016

IEEE Latin Am. Trans.

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This article presents Octopus, a gamification model for assistance in ubiquitous care of chronic diseases. Octopus was projected to be generic, namely, to support any kind of disesase. Moreover, the model uses context awareness and the history of contexts visited by users (trails). This article describes the model architecture and its prototype. The prototype was tested in a simulated u-health scenario to evaluate its functionality and its potential to real applications. The results were encouraging and show potential for implementing Octopus in real-life situations. I. INTRODUÇÃO EGUNDO a Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) em 2008 morreram em torno de 36 milhões de pessoas devido a doenças crônicas não transmissíveis (DCNTs) em todo o mundo [1]. Além disto, no lançamento do relatório de 2011 da OMS [2] a Diretora Geral da OMS, Margaret Chan, afirmou que estas doenças geram a perda de bilhões de dólares por ano e levam milhares de pessoas para abaixo da linha da pobreza. Em geral, as doenças crônicas são originadas por hábitos, como por exemplo, sedentarismo, tabagismo, entre outros, que acabam gerando "alterações metabólicas/fisiológicas", tais como, hipertensão arterial, sobrepeso e obesidade. Tanto os hábitos, quanto os resultados destes hábitos compõem os fatores de riscos que devem ser controlados como forma de prevenir casos destas doenças [3]. O tratamento para este tipo de doença deve ser contínuo, pois a maioria das DCNTs não possuem cura, desta maneira, este tipo de tratamento exige que o paciente tenha conhecimento das suas condições clínicas, bem como do tratamento determinado pelo médico responsável. Esta necessidade pode ocasionar situações que o paciente pode não estar preparado para enfrentar, ou ocasiões em que o paciente possa não ter a confiança necessária para realizar determinadas atividades e necessite da colaboração de alguém com a experiência na atividade em questão [4] [5] [6]. Para sanar estes problemas os dispositivos móveis apresentam características úteis, pois estão sempre juntos ao proprietário, possibilitando um gerenciamento contínuo, e possuem acesso à internet, viabilizando o contato com pessoas experientes em certas atividades de cuidado de DCNTs, bem como o acesso a recursos que possam auxiliar no tratamento de DCNTs através C. A. Paim, Faculdade de Tecnologia (FTEC), Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil, cassiuspaim@acad.ftec.com.br J. L. V. Barbosa, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), São Leopoldo, RS, Brasil, jbarbosa@unisinos.br

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“…Scarle et al [10] presented a serious game that had two main goals focusing on public involvement. Firstly, it was targeted at raising the awareness of poor eating habits at primary school children that has been becoming one of the main causes of the rising obesity epidemic and, secondly, through the application of motion controls that enabled the participant to reduce the amount of on-screen time in which the game player was physically inactive.…”

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“…Learning to apply the correct amount of pressure plays a significant role in providing the correct diagnosis and also in patient comfort; a too light touch may miss out on important physiological phenomena and a too heavy touch may cause significant patient discomfort further compounding potential diagnosis issues. While a number of novel input technologies beyond the traditional have recently begun to be applied to serious games [9,10,11,12] no serious game, to the best of our knowledge, has targeted the correct application of pressure as its main goal. A study based on two groups composed of general public participants, one group that played the game and a control group demonstrates that there is reason to believe that such a serious game can help improve pressure sensitivity in individuals.…”

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confidence: 99%