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Serious games applied to attention deficithyperactivity disorder: development of two games for therapeutic purpose
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Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder is a disease that affects 3 to 5 percent of children
globally. Many of those live in areas with very few or no medical professionals qualified to
help them. To help assuage this problem a system was developed that allows physicians to
accompany their patient’s progress and prescribe treatments. These treatments can be drugs
or behavioral exercises. The behavioral exercises were designed in the form of games in
order to motivate the patients, children, for the treatment. The system allows the patients to
play the prescribed games, under the supervision of their tutors. Each game is designed to
improve the patient’s handling of their disease through training in a specific mental
component. The objective of this approach is to complement the traditional form of
treatment by allowing a physician to prescribe therapeutic games and maintaining the
patients under supervision between their regular consultations. The main goal of this
project is to provide the patients with a better control of their symptoms that with just
traditional therapy. Experimental field tests with children and clinical staff, offer promising
results.
This research is developed in the context of a financed project involving INESC C
(Polytechnic Institute of Leiria delegation), the Santo André Hospital of Leiria, and the
start-up company PlusrootOne (that owns the project).
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ADHD Online therapy Serious game