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
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