• DocumentCode
    3680965
  • Title

    Seeker: A serious game for improving cognitive abilities

  • Author

    Irina Toma;Mihai Dascalu;Stefan Trausan-Matu

  • Author_Institution
    Computer Science Department, University Politehnica of Bucharest Bucharest, Romania
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    73
  • Lastpage
    79
  • Abstract
    Seeker is a serious game developed using the Unity game engine that focuses on a learning outcome: improving users´ cognitive abilities. The user is confronted with a series of puzzles, has complete liberty in terms of traveling between game scenes and must adequately manage the available resources in order to solve the game. Cognitive abilities are challenged for resource management and decision making, while pleasure and fun are provided while solving different puzzles. Preliminary results of our validation show that users enjoyed playing the game, but the lack of scene ordering and the limited number of provided hints are facts that should be improved in the future version.
  • Keywords
    Decision support systems
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    RoEduNet International Conference - Networking in Education and Research (RoEduNet NER), 2015 14th
  • ISSN
    2068-1038
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-8179-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2247-5443
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RoEduNet.2015.7311831
  • Filename
    7311831