The document discusses AMICO H, a game-based tool to support children with leukemia and their families. It aims to improve adherence to therapies, psychological outcomes, adjustment, and reintegration into normal life. The game uses a story and mechanics where players help a magician by exploring a castle, shopping, and tending a garden to grow magic plants for a potion. It is meant to provide support, entertainment, effective communication and information to a high number of patients.

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AMICO H – A tool to feel good
A 360°support for children with leukemia and their families
Chiara A. Ripamonti
University of Milano-Bicocca
Psyché

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Survival rates
in high-income
countries:
84%Incidence of
childhood cancer
215,000 cases
< 14 years
Leukemia
is the most
frequent

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Survival rates in high-income
countries:
84%
• Adherence to therapies
• Better psychological outcome and a higher level of adjustment
• Collaborative Parents
• Improved re-integration into normal life
OURGOALS:

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Information AMICO H Interactivity

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COMPETITION

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The storytelling
A spell has transformed the little prince of the
Niaga kingdom into a dragon. This spell can be
countered by the magician with an alchemical
potion prepared with extracts from his garden’s
magical plants.
The objective of the game is to help the magician
to get all the necessary ingredients for the
preparation of the magic potion

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Game mechanics
Castle Shop Garden
The young patient should carry out the activities of the gamification
system (usually training activities in the form of minigames)
exploring the castle and earning coins to buy what is needed to grow
the magic plants (e.g. spade, fertilizer, herbicide).

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Time frame

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Thanks to:
• Fondazione Magica Cleme
• University of Milan Bicocca - Department of Psychology
and Department of Human Sciences for Education
• Comitato Maria Letizia Verga
• ABIO