• DocumentCode
    1799620
  • Title

    StarsRace: A mobile collaborative seriuos game for obesity

  • Author

    Al-Qurishi, Muhammad S. ; Mostafa, Mohamed A. ; Alrakhami, Mabrook S. ; Alamri, Atif M.

  • Author_Institution
    Coll. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., King Saud Univ., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    14-18 July 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    Many researchers in the literature participated in solving the obesity epidemic that has spread worryingly nowadays. One of these solutions is the mobile serious games. In this paper, we designed, developed and deployed a mobile serious game entitled StarsRace. It is a collaborative game, which two players involve in one match. This competition depends on rapid arrival to pre-defined geographical points (representing by stars images) on the map. Players collect stars form these locations and gain points. The therapist with respect to the players´ profiles distributed those stars. To make the game more fun, we have added an aid toolbox that can increase the competition. Lastly, we evaluate our game using an evaluating model proposed by Nokia Research Center. We find that our game cover nearly all the model criteria.
  • Keywords
    epidemics; groupware; medical computing; mobile computing; serious games (computing); StarsRace; aid toolbox; mobile collaborative seriuos game; obesity epidemic; Collaboration; Games; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Monitoring; Obesity; Registers; Collaborative Game; Mobile Serious Game; Obesity;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Multimedia and Expo Workshops (ICMEW), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Chengdu
  • ISSN
    1945-7871
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICMEW.2014.6890673
  • Filename
    6890673