A serious game for improving community-based prevention of neglected diseases

Masood Masoodian; Saturnino Luz; Manuel Cesario; Raquel Rangel Cesario; Bill Rogers; Diones A. Borges

doi:10.1109/CBMS.2015.17

A serious game for improving community-based prevention of neglected diseases

Masood Masoodian, Saturnino Luz, Manuel Cesario, Raquel Rangel Cesario, Bill Rogers, Diones A. Borges

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Abstract

Community-based healthcare strategies are becoming increasingly important in developing sustainable practices for prevention of neglected and emerging diseases in remote regions. In this paper, we discuss the use of 'serious games' as one of the strategies for improving local populations' knowledge of the causes, preventive measures, and treatment options for neglected tropical diseases. We illustrate the potential of such a strategy for fostering engagement between local communities and healthcare workers by presenting a serious game architecture we have developed in collaboration with medical researchers and practitioners working in Amazonia. Although this first game focuses on Leishmaniases, it can be extended to easily include other similar diseases. This prototype game has been presented to a group of experts on neglected tropical diseases, and their opinions are reported here.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	286-291
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781467367752
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2015.17
Publication status	Published - 27 Jul 2015
Event	28th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2015 - Sao Carlos and Ribeirao Preto, Brazil Duration: 22 Jun 2015 → 25 Jun 2015

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Conference	28th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2015
Country/Territory	Brazil
City	Sao Carlos and Ribeirao Preto
Period	22/06/15 → 25/06/15

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community education
disease prevention
games for healthcare
Serious games
ubiquitous computing

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Masoodian, M, Luz, S, Cesario, M, Cesario, RR, Rogers, B & Borges, DA 2015, A serious game for improving community-based prevention of neglected diseases. in Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems., 7167502, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pp. 286-291, 28th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2015, Sao Carlos and Ribeirao Preto, Brazil, 22/06/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2015.17

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