Designing games for older adults: an affordance based approach

Mahmoud Awad; S. Ferguson; C. Craig

doi:10.1109/SeGAH.2014.7067103

Designing games for older adults: an affordance based approach

Mahmoud Awad, S. Ferguson, C. Craig

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Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to determine the game principles that need to be adopted in order to create an enjoyable and engaging game experience for older adults, whilst ensuring that the purpose of the game, encouraging upper limb mobility, is respected. The study reported in this paper involved a group of older adults who played and gave feedback on an early game prototype which feed into the design modification process. Each player's action capabilities were measured and taken into account in the design process. This helped ensure that opportunities for action that the game afforded were adapted to players' need.

Original language	English
Pages	1-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SeGAH.2014.7067103
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Duration: 14 May 2014 → 16 May 2014

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health
Abbreviated title	SeGAH
Country	Brazil
City	Rio de Janeiro
Period	14/05/14 → 16/05/14

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Bibliographical note

The work was funded by a Microsoft PhD Scholarship, the conference was held in Rio de Janeiro in May 2014.
© 2014 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.

Keywords

computer games
human factors
design modification process
game design
game experience
game principles
limb mobility
older adults
affordance
engagement
kinect
user centred design
Computers
Context
Games
Prototypes
Switches
Testing
Virtual environments

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Awad, M., Ferguson, S., & Craig, C. (2014). Designing games for older adults: an affordance based approach. 1-7. Paper presented at International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://doi.org/10.1109/SeGAH.2014.7067103

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