Designing a serious game for community-based disease prevention in the Amazon

Saturnino Luz; Masood Masoodian; Manuel Cesario; Raquel Rangel Cesario; Bill Rogers

doi:10.1145/2663806.2663857

Designing a serious game for community-based disease prevention in the Amazon

Saturnino Luz, Masood Masoodian, Manuel Cesario, Raquel Rangel Cesario, Bill Rogers

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Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

Abstract

Many developing regions around the world rely on community-based healthcare strategies and practices to deal with prevention and control of often neglected diseases, by educating the local population and healthcare professionals, on the mechanisms by which such diseases spread and how they can be controlled. In this paper we describe a multiplayer serious game designed to raise awareness, and foster adoption of preventive measures among local citizens and community-health professionals about Leishmaniosis. We also discuss how the underlying concept for this game and its mechanics have been iteratively designed and developed in collaboration with a group of people with relevant medical and research expertise as well as practical knowledge resulting from working with our target population.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ACE 2014 - 11th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference, Proceedings
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450329453
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2663806.2663857
Publication status	Published - 11 Nov 2014
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology - Funchal, Madeira, Portugal Duration: 11 Nov 2014 → 14 Nov 2014 Conference number: 11

Publication series

Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume	2014-November

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology
Abbreviated title	ACE
Country	Portugal
City	Funchal, Madeira
Period	11/11/2014 → 14/11/2014

Keywords

Community education
Disease prevention
Games for healthcare
Mobile computing
Serious games

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Luz, S., Masoodian, M., Cesario, M., Cesario, R. R., & Rogers, B. (2014). Designing a serious game for community-based disease prevention in the Amazon. In ACE 2014 - 11th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference, Proceedings [2663857] (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 2014-November). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/2663806.2663857

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Designing a serious game for community-based disease prevention in the Amazon. / Luz, Saturnino; Masoodian, Masood; Cesario, Manuel; Cesario, Raquel Rangel; Rogers, Bill.

ACE 2014 - 11th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference, Proceedings. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014. 2663857 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 2014-November).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

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