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Title | An Ubiquitous Game for Providing Emotional Support to Hospitalized Children |
Authors | Ramon Cruzat, Sergio Ochoa, Luis Guerrero |
Publication date | 2012 |
Abstract | Kids under treatments that involve long stays at a hospital or health center tend to get bored or depressed because of the lack of social interaction with family and friends. Such a situation also affects the evolution and effec-tiveness of their treatments. This article presents a mobile ubiquitous game called MagicRace, which allows hospitalized kinds to interact socially with one another, without putting to risk their sensitive health conditions. The game does not require a communication infrastructure at the hospital, but instead, it uses a mobile ad hoc network composed of the handhelds used by the kids to play |
Pages | 171-174 |
Conference name | International Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living |
Publisher | Springer-Verlag (Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany) |
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