Rapid development of first person serious games using the APEX platform: the asthma game
| Autor: | Michael D. Harrison, José Luís Silva, Tiago Gomes, José Creissac Campos, Tiago Abade |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universidade do Minho |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Game mechanics
Serious games Ubiquitous computing Multimedia Computer science 4. Education ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING 020207 software engineering Ciências Naturais::Ciências da Computação e da Informação 02 engineering and technology Serious game computer.software_genre Asthma Virtual environments Formative assessment 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Human–computer interaction First person 030225 pediatrics Component (UML) 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering InformationSystems_MISCELLANEOUS computer Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica Eletrónica e Informática |
| Zdroj: | SAC |
| Popis: | Serious games combine a ludic component with instructive and formative goals. They aim to educate and train through play. This paper explores the use of a development framework for dynamic virtual environments to develop serious games. The framework (APEX) was originally developed to prototype ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) environments. Here it is used to develop a first person serious game: the Asthma Game. This game aims to teach children with asthma how to act to prevent attacks by drawing attention to asthma triggers in the home, and by providing information about how to avoid them. Besides the description of the game, results about the viability and utility of the approach are also discussed. This work is funded by ERDF - European Regional Development Fund through the COMPETE Programme (operational programme for competitiveness) and by National Funds through the FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) within project FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-015095. Tiago Gomes and Tiago Abade are funded by grants with references BI2-2013 PTDC/EIA-EIA/116069/2009 UMINHO and BI1-2013 PTDC/EIA-EIA/116069/2009 UMINHO, respectively. The authors also thank the Taipas Group of Schools, and in particular Julia Correia and her students, for their collaboration in the user study. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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