Glooveth: healthy living, fun and serious gaming.
Serious Games and Gamification deliver powerful and truthful experiences by providing the user with goals, challenges, problem solving and rules, besides a clear internal value and an interactive experience. In fact, Serious Games can be considered memorable experiences that deliver intense moments with the support of different platforms and social networks while ensuring high degrees of motivation, efficiency and performance. Here, we describe Glooveth, an educational game for children ages 6 to 12 years, which was the winner of the Silver Award in the Global eHealth Challenge 2010. Glooveth is a platform computer game that teaches healthy living. We developed a game to be used by three different peripherals: a mouse and two special gloves. These peripherals provide the user with a more intense gameplaying and learning experience. The paper explains the project, from concept to application to usability testing.
Grup de Recerca de Tecnologies Mèdia.
Enric
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Macías
Oscar
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García
Pau
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Moreno
Maria Montserrat
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Presno
Tallulah
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Forrest
D002648:Child; D016287:Computer Peripherals; D005717:Games, Experimental; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D018910:Video Games