Computer games for elderly people

    • [PDF File]The Impact of Computer Technology on the Elderly

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      elderly people. This is made clear in studies such as [16], in which the effect of computer games on elderly people is examined. Next to being a new recreational activity, playing computer games was shown to positively affect information processing, reading, comprehending and memory.


    • [PDF File]MOTION TRACKING EXERGAMES FOR ELDERLY USERS

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      population plays digital games in some form, the solitaire-type games being the most popular ones. In the age groups between 60 and 75 years the most popular games are single-player computer games followed by games played in browser. Mobile games (1.1.-1.6%), multiplayer games (0.0-0.6%) and console games (0.0%) are trailing far behind.


    • [PDF File]Impact of Serious Games on Health and Well-being of ...

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      of computer games for the elderly, the motivations for elderly people to play games are categorized into four areas: entertainment, socializing with other people, mental exercise, and physical exercise [15], [16], [17]. [15] used these categories specifically from the perspective of game design for older adults, whereas


    • [PDF File]Playful Aging: Digital Games for Older Adults

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      games in which they compete with others, the computer, or themselves. Older adults, particularly those with more education, often become “lifelong learners” for both mental stimulation and entertainment. Much of our research and development has centred on online educational games that appeal to seniors. These replicate common board or card ...



    • [PDF File]Game Design for Training of Elderly People in Mouse and ...

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      People who do not know how to use the computer and access the Internet are considered illiterate digital [10][16], making it difcult to upgrade or even a return to the labor market. Research shows that digital games and simulators can improve the physical and mental health for elderly people. With the use of


    • [PDF File]Leisure Technology for the Elderly: A Survey, User ...

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      games and other systems to improve elderly people’s health, existing leisure technology and user acceptance of leisure technology among elderly people. Alzheimer’s disease is defined as damages in the neuronal and synaptic system in the brain, thus causing loss of memory [2]. If it gets worse, it will affect the behaviour and cognitive


    • [PDF File]Designing Universally Accessible Games

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      Today, computer games are one of the major sources of entertainment. Computer games are usu- ... vices by elderly and disabled users has become a topic of great importance at an international level. Based on the fundamental right of all people for equal ... people to develop sound-only computer games. Furthermore, in the same year,


    • [PDF File]PLAY UP! A SMART KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEM USING GAMES FOR ...

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      maintaining an active lifestyle can help to reduce the risk of falling. Computer games can be used to support and motivate elderly people in exercising regularly in a playful way. In this paper we present a cloud-enabled knowledge-based system (KBS) for personalization and data analysis of exercise games.


    • [PDF File]Empathy Games - Scout

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      These games are fun to play but also have a serious message. When the game is played it is important that some form of group discussion takes place. This ... the people with a raised hand to share what his or her creation represents. Then ask if anyone else made a creation that represents another member of the group.


    • [PDF File]Cognition, technology and games for the elderly: An ...

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      Fleissner, 1995, in Burdick and Kwon, 2004). Computer-mediated communication can facilitate this group-interaction, especially when time for regular face-to-face meeting is lacking. Fisk et al. (2004), who conducted several focus groups with elderly people, found that more than 50% of problems reported by participants in using technological tools


    • [PDF File]Motivational Factors for Mobile Serious Games for Elderly ...

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      to satisfy the needs and desires of the elderly people. According to Kim [2008], cited by Vieira and Santarosa [2009], the lack of motivation for the use of digital games by the elderly can be justified by the fact that the current elderly have lived most of their lives without access to these technologies. Selwin et al.


    • [PDF File]Activities for Older Adults During COVID19

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      A number of reminiscence systems have been developed for people with dementia, based on photographs, photo books, boxes of objects and materials and interactive computer applications. The BBC wants to contribute to this growing set of supports for people with dementia and their carers by drawing on the enormous fund of photos, videos, and sound


    • [PDF File]Impro ve Performance in Elderly Subjects Using Computerize ...

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      The CD with Computer Games included 12 popular computer games (Mathematical triangle, Labyrinth, X-O, Tangram, Tennis, Memory - Simon, Memory - Pairs, Numbers, Tetris, Puzzles, Target practice, Snake) which were selected to constitute the placebo intervention. Method Impro ve Performance in Elderly Subjects Using Computerize ve Training


    • [PDF File]An Ontology-Driven Elderly People Home Mobilization Approach

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      5 National Foundation for the Elderly 6 Computer Vision Lab, Vienna University of Technology 7 SilverFit 8 Geriatrische Klinik St. Gallen 9 CogVis Software and Consulting GmbH Abstract. The use of virtual reality games, known as \exergaming", is gaining more and more interest as a mobilization tool and as a key piece


    • [PDF File]Powerful elderly characters in video games: Flemeth of ...

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      about orienting games towards an elderly audience, or game representations of aging and older persons. Games specifically designed for older persons are focused on improving cognitive functions, starting from the assumption that the elderly are in need of special games in order to repair age-related deficits.


    • [PDF File]Health Beneļ¬ts of Digital Videogames for the Aging ...

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      the elderly’s physical health. In addition, 14 studies reported effects on the elderly’s mental health. Exergame is the most popular type of game used in these videogame-based interventions. This review also includes the details of study design (e.g., type of intervention, length, frequency), population sample, and measurements used in the ...


    • [PDF File]The 60’s are the new 20’s: Teaching older adults technology

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      taught computer classes to the elderly in San Diego during a six-week period to 400 older adults. Among their findings was that “physical limitations had no effect on the elderly’s ability to learn. People with arthritis were still motivated to punch keystrokes and make the computer respond” (Chin, “The elderly learn to compute,


    • [PDF File]Seniorgamer seniors with dementia facing new technology ...

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      Seniorgamer is a way to engage elderly people facing new technologies with positive activity and computer games. We experience that computer games are very popular amongst children and young people in the library. Seniorgamer has shown that they are equally engaging for people with dementia.


    • [PDF File]Exergames For Elderly

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      games are using persuasive technology, which means the deliberate use of communication to change attitudes and behavior of people [11, 12]. In this position paper we provide an overview of how exergames are being used in the elderly population and the specific challenges related to this age group (section II). In


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