In this paper, we present a serious game that can prevent elderly people from brain illness using natural finger interaction and Fumanet exercise. As population of elderly people has continually grown in our society, brain illness like dementia can be naturally observed, which makes treatment cost up rapidly. Hence, we propose Leap-Motion based serious game for elderly people, which uses natural finger motions to interact with game contents. In our approach, we enhance finger motion recognition rate by adding auxiliary conditions that is superior to ordinary Leap-Motion APIs. Finally, we have also carried out user study and quantitative analysis to verify our methods.

Although motivation and fun are important for effective speech therapy, the conventional speech therapy is often conducted by using a textbook which can be boring to the speech-handicapped. The present study is to develop a speech therapy serious game for rehabilitation of the handicapped with articulation and fluency in speech. A speech therapy game was developed in the present study through the following four-step approach: (1) benchmarking analysis of 8 speech therapy systems, (2) analysis of 22 parents, (3) development of the framework of the speech therapy game and ideas for speech therapy game contents, and (4) implementation of the speech therapy serious game system using C# and the game engine Unity. The speech therapy serous game developed in the study can be of help for rehabilitation of articulation and fluency for the speech-handicapped.

The game intended for treatment directly is not yet much in domestic and even though it is used for child psychotherapy, the direct game therapy has not been used yet. But the possibility of the game therapy is likely to increase in the future due to emerging the field of virtual reality therapy, recreational therapy. In this study it is proposed the rhythm game using the balance ball connected the wired/wireless PC, it is the reason why the functional game may help the upper limb rehabilitation if you are using it continuously without a place, time, and cost constraints.

This study examines the general assumption that serious games can bring about positive effects for purported social changes. The interactive nature of the serious game was thought to be one of the distinctive aspects of the medium as compared with other traditional non- interactive media. To explore whether the interactivity of serious games yields different psychological influences, we conducted an experimental study with a serious game whose narrative concerns the environmental issue, EcoFriendz (N=40). The results illustrate that those who played the video game perceived themselves to be more aware of the environmental problem than those who read the same narrative in a non-interactive text format. Also the game players were more willing to carry out measures to deal with the environmental problem.

Prevalence of children with developmental disabilities has increased the need for a variety of educational and therapeutic interventions for children in the study of the subject has increased according to the load. in this paper, the review of the developmental disability characteristics and teaching methods are based on this proposal of realistic experimental serious game contents using AAC(Augmentative and Alternative Communication) method because we make up for the conventional interventions and increase participation and motivation in learning. In this paper, we improve the area said to be the motivation and commitment to develop the content by using a realistic experience for users experiencing at present a pervasive developmental disorder of language development in the paper. In particular, we shows the effectiveness of the improved speech area through the use of this serious game content through real experiments with children with developmental disabilities.

Schizophrenia is one of the most chronic and severe mental disorders. It has hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, a lack of emotion and a lack of motivation. Schizophrenia also causes significant social and work problems. In order to prevent worsening and recurrences of schizophrenia, and to induce continuous improvement of disease, symptom management and medication training are critical factors. A serious game which makes strong interest and immersion senses is a very useful learning tool for schizophrenia patients who show attention deficit, impassiveness, lack of spontaneity and lower motivation. This study uses card match games to improve the patient’s memory and concentration, and encourage procedural learning by associating the difficulty level of the game with the symptom rating scale of disorder. Also it promotes patients to express their feelings through game characters to alleviate their suffering from emotional dullness. It also helps patients to develop teamwork and build interactive skills by demanding cooperative missions for beating the game. Therefore this study is expected to contribute in improving the efficiency of schizophrenic patient education. We suggest to develop serious game design for schizophrenia patients' education.

BCI is called BMI (brain-machine interface) sometimes. It is the interface which controls things with human consciousness. In this paper, we look into several of the headset protocol, and we proposed unified protocol with medical standard MFER (Medical Waveform Format Encording Rules) through the analysis of the protocol. And to prove the excellence of the proposed protocol as a case study, we demonstrate embedded control car so as to; (1) prevent overlapped investment on new BCI input interface development, and (2) help to create BCI-related functional game easily, (3) realize variety services through the each equipment compatibility.

Digital dementia becomes an issue these days which causes failure of one’s memory and calculation ability because many people rely heavily on digital devices, such as smart phones. Smart devices themselves become smarter and smarter whereas digital device users become dumber and dumber, and finally they are suffering from digital dementia. Serious games can be defined as games which combine entertainments with various applications. They relieve the negative opinions which belong to existing games, so many game titles have been released as serious games in these days. This research is motivated by the fact that serious games were originated to overcome practical issues. In this paper, a serious game is presented to prevent digital dementia and its effectiveness is shown. The proposed serious game is composed of simple four fundamental arithmetic operations which improve one’s calculation ability. Since simple arithmetic operations are familiar regardless of one’s age, they are chosen. Everyone can enjoy the game beause random factors are added. This paper concludes that serious games can be used to prevent digital dementia very effectively.

People have been experiencing lot of incidents for their lives which results in gaining their impetus. Each impetus derives an emotion and such emotion is either of positive or negative one. The positive emotion motivates activation of his life but the negative emotion demotivates one. Specifically, the negative motivation will be much worse for children and it could be adversely affected to their emotional development. The paper first characterizes how to regulate an emotion in a view of psychology base and also characterizes how to regulate the emotion for children. And then, we analyze serious game contents which have been developed to care a negative emotion for children and youth to derive some game elements to be used in the games. Finally, by combining the two characterizations of regulation of emotion in psychology view and the serious games, we propose effective game elements for caring children’s negative emotion. We expect that the results will provide a good guideline when we make a serious game to care children’s negative emotion.

The purpose of this research was to explore whether playing self-hygiene serious game has any effect on the knowledge, self-efficacy, and behavior related to self-hygiene of young children. Three children, ages 5 and 6, all male, participated in this study. Three children were observed for one, two, and three weeks before game play. After this baseline period, the children were given a game titled Parasite Wars, in which the children have to kill the parasites to get healthy, to play for one week. After the initial exposure to the game, the children were observed during one week of game play for self-hygiene behavior. Also, immediately before and after the week of game-play, children were tested on knowledge and self-efficacy related to self-hygiene. Results indicate that all children improved in knowledge and self-efficacy after the gameplay. Numbers of voluntary hand-wash increased after initial exposure to the game for all three children. The numbers of verbal facilitation for hand-wash all decreased with game-play.

This research has analyzed the functional effect on creativity and community sense of children by playing games. The games have positive effects on various fields with social and cultural category. Categorized by discipline effect, learning effect, family effect, remedy effect, prevention and diagnosis effect, the functionality of playing games each has a positive role to improve creativity, imagination, independence, openness and adventure of children and to inspire consciousness of membership and interaction, parts of community sense of children. The research about functionality of the games will contribute to develop new programs not only for children but also for other various subjects and provide a chance to study a positivity of using games.

Serious games have drawn attention with positive effects on users in various areas. While many categorizations and definitions of serious games have attempted to elucidate the elusive term, we are still some way off in formulating an agreed understanding of what serious games are and how they can be classified. This paper aims to provide an overall picture of the concepts and categorizations of serious games. From the results of previous literature, the major applications of serious games can be converged into five primary areas: public policy, military, education, corporate and healthcare. Likewise, theories applied to serious games comprise three main strategic purposes: information notification/PR, change of user attitude/behavior, and purposive training. Based on the strategic purposes and applied areas, this study categorizes serious games into 15 sectors. In addition, founded on the motivation factors and the characteristics of digital games, the current study suggests a new definition of serious games.

To assess effectiveness in serious games is the principal means for the purpose of developing the game and criteria for assessing quality of the game. Until now, serious games assessment has been implemented mainly through surveys that measured from the outside of the game using in-depth interviews, or sensor-based psycho-physiological observation. However, these methods have limitations that do not properly reflect on the gaming experience that is characterized by the coevolution through player participation activities. Therefore, we propose a model to assess the effectiveness of serious games systematically through evaluating the functionality based on the player's feedback.

독립적인 지역사회 생활을 위해 화폐를 이용한 돈내기 기술은 기능적이고 중요한 기술이지만 발달장애인의 경우 적절한 기술의 습득과 일반화를 위해 지원이 필요하다. 발달장애인을 지원하기 위해 기능성 모바일 앱은 그 효과가 기대되는 잠재력 높은 도구이며 직접 발달장애인에게 적용해본 결과를 토대로 대상자의 특성에 맞는 기능성 모바일 앱 게임 프로그램 콘텐츠를 개발하는 것이 필요하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 자폐성 장애인을 위해 개발된 국내의 돈내기 기술 보조 앱을 직접 발달장애 대상자에게 적용한 결과를 통해 중재의 효과와 논의를 토대로 발달장애인을 위한 기능성 모바일 앱 게임모델을 제시하였다. 발달장애인을 위한 기능성 모바일 앱 게임은 학습 효과와 일반화를 높이기 위하여 문제해결 중심의 교육용 게임기능을 탑재하고, 독립적인 의사소통을 지원하기 위하여 AAC기능을 제공할 것이 제안된다. 마지막으로 본 연구의 의의와 후속연구를 위한 방안을 제시하였다.

본 연구는 청각장애인의 재활 훈련을 위한 모바일 기능성 게임 프로그램을 기획하였고, 청각 장애 아동의 특성과 청력 손실에 따른 분류를 알고 음성인식 기술을 적용하여 개발되었다. 본게임은 청각장애인의 재활훈련을 위해 발성훈련 및 발음교정을 하기 위한 미니게임으로 구성하였고, 모바일을 활용한 게임을 이용, 재활치료를 실시하여 재미있게 훈련을 할 수 있도록 설계하였다.

기능성 게임은 지적 장애인의 과제분석, 촉진, 반복을 주요 전략으로 사용하는 직무 훈련에 효과적 대안이 될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 기능성 게임과 장애인 직무 훈련의 공통점을 살펴보고, 기능성 게임이 왜 좋은 대안이 될 수 있는지를 고찰하였다. 그 구체적 예로 “직업 기능“ 교과서의 콘텐츠 중 가장 많은 부분을 차지하는 "음식 조리" 단원의 콘텐츠를 분석하여 적합한 게임의 구성과 형태를 연구하였다. 훈련 및 학습 효과의 최대화를 위해 장애인을 위한 기능성 게임은 기존의 엔터테인먼트 게임들과의 차이가 있어야 함을 설명하였으며, 지적 장애인 기능성 게임이 나아가야 할 방향을 제시하였다.

This research is to improve the cultural-welfare of seniors by vitalizing the limited cultural-contents area and letting them overcome feeling of being left out and of lethargy through development of indoor functional Gateball system. This system makes it possible for senior people enjoy Gateball regardless of space or weather, the disadvantages of outdoor Gateball, and the game is identical to outdoor games and even it has on-line game function s well. The indoor Gateball is safe for seniors to play and the required physical power is just reasonable for seniors. It also has good for preventing dementia and recreational system.

현 시점을 기준으로 피교육자인 초등학생 입장에서 효과적이고 사실적인 그리고 상황적 배경을 잘 활용할 수 있는 공교육 대상 통일교육의 한 방법으로, 초등학생 대상 통일교육 목적의 기능성게임의 개발과 활용을 제언하고자 한다. 대상 집단을 공교육 대상 초등학생으로 한정하는 이유는 입시 위주 교육 체제에 따라 교육 과정 내 통일교육이 중, 고등학교에서 실행되기 어려운 여건이라는 점과 초등학생 때의 통일교육은 성장 과정에서 국가관 형성에 지대한 영향을 끼치게 되기 때문에, 자칫 통일교육이 잘못 실시되면 올바른 민족관과 통일관의 형성에 장애가 될 수 있다는 점에 기인한다. 이를 위한 연구 방법으로 교육 목적의 기능성게임의 사례 연구와 효과 분석을 통해 통일교육 내용의 게임화에 따른 효과를 도출하여, 통일교육의 문제 해결 및 개선을 위한 기능성게임을 어떻게 개발하고 활용할 수 있는지를 풀어본다.

기능성 교육용게임에서, 가장 이상적인 형태는 재미도 있고 교육 효과도 좋은 경우일 것이다. 본 논문에서는 성인에 비해서 집중력이 낮은 초등학생의 회화식 영어 교육을 위해서 웹 기반의 MMORPG 게임을 설계 개발 하였다. 유선 및 무선 인터넷 접속을 통하여 타인과 협동, 경쟁심을 키워주어 초등학생의 영어 학습 능력을 높여 주는 효과를 누릴 수 있게 하였다. 이를 통하여 게임 산업의 다양성을 추구하고자 한다. 또한 향후에는 스마트폰과의 연동을 위한 UI 및 게임콘텐츠 업데이트를 하고자 한다

This research is to develop a functional twosome game, named "Speed Touch". Speed ouch neccesitates reasonable function of the frontal lobe of brain, mainly related to fast decision making and quick response to provided subject, and physical exercises as well. Speed Touch could improve players' abilities of instant response, memory, reflexes, and concentration simultaneously. The simplicity of Speed Touch contents make everyone learn how to play at glance, and different level of difficulty compensates the simplicity. In short, Speed ouch could be called "simple and intuitive". These factors of Speed Touch could relieve poor cognition ability of children, help preventing the old from getting dimentia. This research also requires deep study of human brain functions, human factor engineering, and necessary game factors for successful result, including better attention and cognition abilities.