@inproceedings{024ca3e7acdb40ab958855c61748182a,
title = "On Exploring Design Elements in Assistive Serious Games for Parkinson's Disease Patients: The i-PROGNOSIS Exergames Paradigm",
abstract = "Serious Games (SGs) design couples learning design with game logic. Moreover, it can result in SGs with beneficial effects in sustaining and/or improving the (physical, cognitive) functionality in older adults. In this vein, the design elements in assistive SGs for Parkinson's Disease (PD) patients are explored here. The Game-Based Learning (GBL) design framework is adopted and its main game-design parameters are combined in a test case of Exergames design, drawn from the i-PROGNOSIS Personalized Game Suite (http://www.i-prognosis.eu). Data from a GBL-related Web-survey, completed by 104 participants, were subjected to linear regression analysis, so to identify an adapted GBL framework with the most significant game-design parameters, which efficiently predict the transferability of the Exergames beneficial effect to real-life, addressing functional PD symptoms. The findings of the proposed analysis can assist game designers to focus on the use of significant parameters during the designing process of Exergames for PD patients and maximize the positive effect of the SGs in their quality of daily life.",
keywords = "Exergames, Game-Based Learning framework, i-PROGNOSIS, Linear Regression, Parkinson's Disease, Personalized Game Suite, Serious Games",
author = "Dias, {S. B.} and Diniz, {J. A.} and D. Trivedi and E. Konstantinidis and T. Savvidis and P. Bamidis and S. Bostantzopoulou and H. Jaeger and M. Stadtschnitzer and V. Charisis and S. Hadjidimitriou and D. Iakovakis and L. Klingelhoefer and Hadjileontiadis, {L. J.}",
note = "Funding Information: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work has received funding from the EU H2020-PHC-21-2015, grant Agreement N° 690494: {\textquoteleft}i-PROGNOSIS{\textquoteright} Project (www.i-prognosis.eu). The authors would like to thank each and every one of the anonymous participants that have devoted a little of their time for taking the Web-survey and contributing a great value to it, including the participation from Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) and Parkinson{\textquoteright}s UK and Research Involvement Team community. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 IEEE.; 2nd International Conference on Technology and Innovation in Sports, Health and Wellbeing, TISHW 2018 ; Conference date: 20-06-2018 Through 22-06-2018",
year = "2018",
month = dec,
day = "4",
doi = "10.1109/TISHW.2018.8559515",
language = "British English",
series = "TISHW 2018 - 2nd International Conference on Technology and Innovation in Sports, Health and Wellbeing, Proceedings",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "TISHW 2018 - 2nd International Conference on Technology and Innovation in Sports, Health and Wellbeing, Proceedings",
address = "United States",
}