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Serious games applied to attention deficithyperactivity disorder: development of two games for therapeutic purpose

datacite.subject.fosEngenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informáticapt_PT
dc.contributor.advisorRijo, Rui Pedro Charters Lopes
dc.contributor.authorBastos, David Guilherme Machado Dinis de
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-24T18:34:25Z
dc.date.available2016-11-24T18:34:25Z
dc.date.issued2016-09-16
dc.description.abstractAttention 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).pt_PT
dc.identifier.tid201328470pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/2270
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.subjectADHDpt_PT
dc.subjectOnline therapypt_PT
dc.subjectSerious gamept_PT
dc.titleSerious games applied to attention deficithyperactivity disorder: development of two games for therapeutic purposept_PT
dc.typemaster thesis
dspace.entity.typePublication
rcaap.rightsclosedAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typemasterThesispt_PT
thesis.degree.nameMestrado em Computação Móvelpt_PT

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