Extending the Use of Games in Health Care

Trevisan

2010 Brazilian Symposium on Games and Digital Entertainment

et al. 2010

Figure 1: JECRIPE -a game for children with special needs AbtractThere are not many initiatives in the area of game development for children with special needs, specially children with Down syndrome. The major purpose of our research is to promote cognitive development of disabled children in the context of inclusive education. In order to do so, we address aspects of interaction, communication and game design in stimulating selected cognitive abilities. By using a Human-Computer Interaction method based on the Inspection of Evaluation, it was possible to study and understand user interaction with the interface and thus examine the positive aspects as well as the communicability problems found with the JECRIPE game -a game developed specially for children with Down syndrome in pre-scholar age.

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Semiotic Inspection of a Game for Children with Down Syndrome

Trevisan

2010 Brazilian Symposium on Games and Digital Entertainment

et al. 2010

“…In addition, the system employs sensing devices and a 3D motion-sensing camera to accurately understand the users' exercise progress, including calories burned, heart rate variability (HRV; including LF%, HF%, and LF/HF), real-time COP, and exercise compliance represented by motion similarity [2,[9][10][11][12].…”

Section: Motion-sensing Rehabilitation Exercise Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Motion-Sensing Based Management System for Smart Context-Awareness Rehabilitation Healthcare

Lu¹,

Lin²,

Chen³

et al. 2013

AIT

In this paper, a motion-sensing based management system for smart context-awareness rehabilitation healthcare including various balance exercise is built by the integration of the physiological sensing and feedback coaching. The home-end system can not only provide the exercise coaching instruction, the balance stability analysis, and the motion similarity analysis in real-time, but also simultaneously transmit the user image, exercise skeleton streaming, center of pressure (COP), center of gravity (COG) and physiological information to the telecare-end center. According to the combination of the home-end and the telecare-end as well as the real-time care management of one-to-multiple personal balance exercise monitor, this system can provide user various personalized balance exercise prescription and cardiac rehabilitation coaching in an effectiveness rehabilitation exercise environment. Therefore, via this tele-system, the spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) patients in balance rehabilitation stage not only can be monitored execution status of the rehabilitation exercise prescription, but also can be long-term monitored and evaluated the predicted goal of the rehabilitation exercise balance stability in order to improve patient's compliance.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

“…Also, various health games addressing patient needs and motivation are available, which can generally be categorized as games for learning, games as distraction or games as coach [33]. Currently, a wide range of games for health focuses on learning and distraction, frequently dealing with chronic conditions, for instance diabetes and asthma [4,21] or severe illness such as cancer [17].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing and Evaluating Casual Health Games for Children and Teenagers with Cancer

Gerling

Fuchslocher

Schmidt

et al. 2011

Abstract. Because they offer an easy entry into play, casual games have become an increasingly popular leisure activity among children and teenagers, engaging particularly broad target audiences. In this paper, we present a casual game that addresses childhood cancer: Besides mere entertainment, a health game that focuses on cancer may serve as a clinical tool in order to teach children about the particularities of the disease and initiate discussion among cancer patients, their parents and medical staff. In this context, the results of an empirical study revealed a generally high acceptance of the health game among young patients, while parents and medical staff highlighted the educational potential of health games addressing cancer. Additionally, we discuss the challenges of evaluating digital games in a hospital setting which were revealed during the evaluation phase.