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
Link To Document :
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