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Serious Games to Improve the Physical Health of the Elderly: A Categorization Scheme

Authors:
Jaime Garcia Marin
Karla Felix Navarro
Elaine Lawrence

Keywords: serious games, classification, categorization scheme, elderly, games for health, user-center design

Abstract:
This paper aims to provide a snapshot of the current status in the field of serious games for improving the physical health of the elderly. This work covers recent research projects for stroke rehabilitation and for falls prevention where user-center design methodologies were applied in order to satisfy this audience. A classification of the most relevant work in this area is provided along with a brief description of the platform, technology required and user-center design principles applied.

Pages: 64 to 71

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: October 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3492

ISBN: 978-1-61208-167-0

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from October 23, 2011 to October 29, 2011