Games for Health - Tom langhorst - Development of a biofeedback cycling game for children with cerebral palsy
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This document discusses the design of a biofeedback cycling game for children with cerebral palsy undergoing rehabilitation. Interviews with patients revealed three key values: themselves, their surroundings, and overcoming challenges. Badges were identified as effective progress markers that could extend gameplay both inside and outside the digital environment. The game would involve cycling through different virtual worlds while being challenged by levels, pickups, tilting, and ghosts based on past performance data. The conclusion suggests further collaboration between doctors and designers could create innovative health games through an incubator business model.
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Games for Health - Tom langhorst - Development of a biofeedback cycling game for children with cerebral palsy
- 1. Tom Langhorst FontysUniversity of AppliedScience School of ICT Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- 2. Biofeedback cyclinggame For children with Cerebral Palsy (CP), as part of their rehabilitation after
- 3. Involving children Interviewing children about what they would like to see and do in the game is risky… Researchers should always critically question whether the test children’s enthusiasm is really caused by a positive user experience or by something else. (VandenAbeele, ZamanDe Grooff, 2011)
- 4. Laddering By interviewing patients at the hospital (girls and boys between 8-12 years old) we were able to recognize three clusters of values. Me Around me (the world) Challenges
- 6. My badges Badges in real world cycling Pimp my bike Badges are notpart of the game AI In some desingsbadges can replace levels as effective progress markers (Zichermann& Cunningham, 2011)
- 7. Badges Extending the gameplay in-and outside the digital environment Social negotiation
- 8. Bartle’s player types player world Explorer Socializer Achiever Killer action interaction Richard Barlte, 2010 GDC
- 9. Around me The children’s ideas about the exercise surroundings: Holidays, Fun, Away from everyday life, and notrealistic.
- 10. Explorer The patient cycles though different worlds: Forrest Beach Ice Candy
- 11. Achiever Level game mechanic hill or wind biofeedback heartrate algorithmpatient min-max effort
- 12. Achiever Pickups Game mechanictime Biofeedbackeffort Algorithmeffort depending value and visibility time
- 13. Achiever Tilt game mechanic avatar tilting biofeedbackpower % left/right % Power Left % Power Right 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50%
- 15. Killer Ghost Based on the average score per level of the last exercise a ghost is calculated
- 16. Ghost motivation Data shows how the patient’s RPM and effort increases during a more difficult level due to the ghost chase
- 17. Conclusion We only just begun… Doctors and Designers Incubator: a new business model for innovation in health games?