Serious game as a tool to intellectual disabilities therapy: Total challenge

Martins, Tiago; Carvalho, Vı́tor; Soares, Filomena; Moreira, M. Fatima

doi:10.1109/segah.2011.6165444

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“…First, as Rosseau and Froebel suggested, play can be viewed as a window into the child's inner experiences -a justification that is used for current therapeutic Serious Games [43]. Secondly, it is also suggested play is the natural behaviour of the child, so engaging in therapeutic activity through play allows for a naturalistic approach that puts the child at ease [42].…”

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“…The assumption of children's natural desire to be playful in the current context of digital games' prevalence is often used a justification which is frequently made explicit [43,49]. Similiarly, the justification of play-based therapies as allowing for the child to freely express themselves resonates with current discourse arguing that Serious Games application affords degrees of freedom not otherwise available.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Brief History of Serious Games

Wilkinson

2016

Entertainment Computing and Serious Games

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Abstract. Serious Games are now an established field of study. In this field most would attribute the rise of Serious Games to Clark C Abt's creation of the term in 1970, or indeed Ben Sawyer's popularization of it in 2002. However, considering the rich history of purposing non-digital games, itself preceded by discussions of purposing play that are traceable to the work of Plato, it can be said that Serious Games is a contemporary manifestation of centuries old theories and practices. In this chapter, we explore the pre-history of Serious Games, beginning with the suggested purpose, and purposing of play. Throughout this historical review we identify key in research and practice that are apparent in the contemporary Serious Games field.

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Section: "Play Is the Highest Development In Childhood For It Alone mentioning

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Section: "Play Is the Highest Development In Childhood For It Alone mentioning

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A Brief History of Serious Games

Wilkinson

2016

Entertainment Computing and Serious Games

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“…[Portela et al 2011] reported the usefulness of Nintendo Wii for improving the life and the helth of elder people. The study of [Martins et al 2011] intends to investigate the evolution of patients with intellectual disabilities using a serious game capable of monitoring their evolution, concerning memory, decision-making time, capacity of observation, learning and applying knowledge. The researches of [Imbeault et al 2011 …”

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Component-based approach for prototyping of movie-based physical therapy games

Okada

Ogata

Matsuguma

2012

Proceedings of the Workshop at SIGGRAPH Asia

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This paper treats a component-based approach for the prototyping of movie-based physical therapy games. The research group of the authors has already proposed a component-based 3D software development system called IntelligentBox. One of the application fields of IntelligentBox is the development of 3D games. In this paper, the authors want to validate the availability of IntelligentBox for the prototype development of movie-based physical therapy games that require simple body actions such as dances. Although physical therapy games needs various types of inputs for human body actions, IntelligentBox has already supported a videobased motion input, a motion capture system input, a data-glove input and so on. Also, physical therapy games need much tuning according to each of rehabilitants because their physical disability levels are different. Therefore, therapists have to frequently change many parameters such as a body action speed, difficulty levels of body actions, etc. For this point, the component-based approach is significant. To validate this, the authors introduce one of the simple dance games as physical therapy games actually being developed using IntelligentBox.

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“…Serious games have demonstrated transient effects and benefits towards elderly well-being. Games have been developed for both physical [3][4][5][6][7] and mental/cognitive well-being [8][9][10][11]. Although serious games can be a valuable option for prevention and rehabilitation, further research is needed to evaluate which settings support long-term motivation and engagement of older people in serious games [2].…”

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Implementing Mobile Games into Care Services—Service Models for Finnish and Chinese Elderly Care

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The purpose of this paper was to create service models for cognitively stimulating mobile games and incorporate them into Finnish and Chinese elderly care. The implementation involved the use of two different mobile games as part of the everyday lives of older adults in care homes in Finland (3 months) and China (6 months). Although a large number of publications examine serious games in elderly care, there are rather few publications related to the practical implementation within the elderly care processes. In general, rehabilitation orientated games should incorporate entertainment (motivation) and relevant therapeutic content (rehabilitation) in order to be effective. Regardless of the game design, successful implementation of the games in elderly care is paramount to benefit the end user. In this paper, two mobile games were investigated as a case study. To investigate the therapeutic content of the games, the game outcomes (game scores and time stamps) were automatically recorded to facilitate analysis of the participant’s progress during the trial. To investigate motivation, user feedback was collected through observation of the game trials and by interviewing the nursing staff and the participants (test group). The gaming service implementation was designed in collaboration with the nursing staff and researchers, according to an experimentation-driven approach, in which the service model ideas were tested by the professionals before piloting. In both countries, the players and the nursing staff found the games showed potential as self-managed rehabilitation tools. Other significant effects of gameplay were enhanced recreation and self-managed activity level. Despite cultural differences, the gaming experience was amazingly similar and improvements in game scores were also observed during the trial in both countries. The biggest difference between the pilots was the implementation process, which led to the development of two different service models that are reported in this paper. In Finland, the games were embedded into the care practices and the nursing staff were responsible for the piloting. In China, the games were independent of the care process and an external service provider (the researcher) managed the piloting. The findings imply that service design in different cultures should be carefully considered when implementing new digital services.

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Serious game as a tool to intellectual disabilities therapy: Total challenge

Cited by 27 publications

References 5 publications

A Brief History of Serious Games

A Brief History of Serious Games

Component-based approach for prototyping of movie-based physical therapy games

Implementing Mobile Games into Care Services—Service Models for Finnish and Chinese Elderly Care

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