Extending the use of games in health care

Carolyn Watters; Sageev Oore; Michael Shepherd; Azza Abouzied; Anthony Cox; Melanie Kellar; Hadi Kharrazi; Fengan Liu; Anthony Otley

doi:10.1109/HICSS.2006.179

Extending the use of games in health care

Carolyn Watters, Sageev Oore, Michael Shepherd, Azza Abouzied, Anthony Cox, Melanie Kellar, Hadi Kharrazi, Fengan Liu, Anthony Otley

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS'06
Pages	88b
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2006.179
State	Published - 2006
Externally published	Yes
Event	39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS'06 - Kauai, HI, United States Duration: Jan 4 2006 → Jan 7 2006

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Name	Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Volume	5
ISSN (Print)	1530-1605

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Other	39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS'06
Country/Territory	United States
City	Kauai, HI
Period	1/4/06 → 1/7/06

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Watters, C., Oore, S., Shepherd, M., Abouzied, A., Cox, A., Kellar, M., Kharrazi, H., Liu, F., & Otley, A. (2006). Extending the use of games in health care. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS'06 (pp. 88b). Article 1579465 (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences; Vol. 5). https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2006.179

Extending the use of games in health care. / Watters, Carolyn; Oore, Sageev; Shepherd, Michael et al.
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS'06. 2006. p. 88b 1579465 (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences; Vol. 5).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Watters, C, Oore, S, Shepherd, M, Abouzied, A, Cox, A, Kellar, M, Kharrazi, H, Liu, F & Otley, A 2006, Extending the use of games in health care. in Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS'06., 1579465, Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, vol. 5, pp. 88b, 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS'06, Kauai, HI, United States, 1/4/06. https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2006.179

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