Abstract

Serious games are about to enter the medical sector to give peoplewith behavioural or addictive disorders the ability to use them as part of healthpromotion and disease prevention. The PlayMancer framework will supportphysical rehabilitations and psycho-education programs thru a modular multiplayer networked 3D game based on the Universally Accessible Games (UA games) guidelines.

Reference

Kalapanidas, E., Wanatabe, H., Davarakis, C., Kaufmann, H., Fernandez Aranda, F., Lam, T., Ganchev, T., & Konstantas, D. (2008). Playmancer: A European Serious Gaming 3D Environment. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on e-health Services and Terchnologies - EHST 2008 (pp. 51–59). 3rd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/52480