Promoting elderly-children interaction in digital games: A preliminary set of design guidelines

Ana I. Grimaldo, Alberto L. Morán, Eduardo Calvillo Gamez, Paul Cairns, Ramón R. Palacio, Victoria Meza-Kubo

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a set of guidelines to facilitate the design of digital games to support elderly-children interaction. We conducted a literature review to identify preliminary elements in the elderly-children interaction process and assessed elder-child interaction during their using two digital games to complement the initial findings. Based on these results, we proposed a set of guidelines to aid in the design of digital games. To validate the guidelines, we conducted an evaluation on the design of digital games with a group of 12 postgraduate students from two local Computer Science programs. Results are promising, indicating a high perception of usefulness, ease of use and intention of use of the proposed guidelines by the group of developers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCollaboration and Technology
Subtitle of host publication20th International Conference, CRIWG 2014, Santiago, Chile, September 7-10, 2014. Proceedings
PublisherSpringer
Pages169-176
Number of pages8
Volume8658 LNCS
ISBN (Electronic)9783319101668
ISBN (Print)9783319101651
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Event20th International Conference on Collaboration and Technology, CRIWG 2014 - Santiago, Chile
Duration: 7 Sept 201410 Sept 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8658 LNCS
ISSN (Print)03029743
ISSN (Electronic)16113349

Conference

Conference20th International Conference on Collaboration and Technology, CRIWG 2014
Country/TerritoryChile
CitySantiago
Period7/09/1410/09/14

Keywords

  • children
  • collaboration
  • design guidelines
  • Digital games
  • elderly

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