TY - GEN
T1 - Extending the use of games in health care
AU - Watters, Carolyn
AU - Oore, Sageev
AU - Shepherd, Michael
AU - Abouzied, Azza
AU - Cox, Anthony
AU - Kellar, Melanie
AU - Kharrazi, Hadi
AU - Liu, Fengan
AU - Otley, Anthony
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2009 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Digital games have the ability to engage both children and adults alike. We are exploring the use of games for children with long term treatment regimes, where motivation for compliance is a key factor in the success of the treatment. In this paper, we describe the game framework we are building for this purpose. This framework is meant to support the long term use of a gaming world for children with three main goals: (a) provide easy and continual gaming access on a range of computing appliances including small screen devices; (b) offer games that can be personalized and are adaptable based on the child's interests or specific illness; and (c) maintain novelty and interest in the treatment over time. This framework not only provides a benefit to the children involved, but also provides user data to the coaches, clinicians, and health researchers involved in the child's treatment regime.
AB - Digital games have the ability to engage both children and adults alike. We are exploring the use of games for children with long term treatment regimes, where motivation for compliance is a key factor in the success of the treatment. In this paper, we describe the game framework we are building for this purpose. This framework is meant to support the long term use of a gaming world for children with three main goals: (a) provide easy and continual gaming access on a range of computing appliances including small screen devices; (b) offer games that can be personalized and are adaptable based on the child's interests or specific illness; and (c) maintain novelty and interest in the treatment over time. This framework not only provides a benefit to the children involved, but also provides user data to the coaches, clinicians, and health researchers involved in the child's treatment regime.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2006.179
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2006.179
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33749646976
SN - 0769525075
SN - 9780769525075
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 88b
BT - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS'06
T2 - 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS'06
Y2 - 4 January 2006 through 7 January 2006
ER -