Social acceptance of serious games for physical and cognitive training in older adults residing in ambient assisted living environments

• Published in: Journal of public health Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 63 - 75
• Main Authors: Brauner, Philipp, Ziefle, Martina
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.01.2022; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Acceptance tests; Cognitive ability; Computer & video games; Cooking; Demographics; Demography; Educational software; Epidemiology; Games; Gardening; Health care; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Motion capture; Older people; Original Article; Physical training; Prototypes; Public Health; Technology utilization; Training; Cognitive training game; Ambient assisted living; Technology acceptance; Exercise game; Serious games; Older adults; Social acceptance

Aims Although ambient assisted living (AAL) environments and serious games for healthcare have been proposed as solutions to meet the changing demographics, the two approaches are rarely combined. We present the development and empirical evaluation of two serious games for healthcare in AAL. The fir...