StimCards: Interactive and configurable Question and Answer game users study conclusion

This paper presents StimCards, an interactive and configurable Question and Answer game which can be applied to cognitive stimulation. This paper reviews experiments done to validate StimCards and draws up a report on these experiments and on StimCards contribution. This game is special because users can create their own questions and their own game scripts, and decide which digital devices will be used to interact with. Two experiments have been realized to evaluate the possibility for users to create game scripts. Two other experiments compared children and seniors and evaluated StimCards acceptability and the preferred users´ computing interlocutor. Results showed that it is so easy to create game scripts that children can do it. Both children and seniors liked StimCards, and children preferred to interact with a robot, rather than a computer or a virtual character.