Development and testing of a serious game for the elderly (title: ‘Paldokangsan3’)

Abstract

Old people are prone to get weak in their physical bodies as well as their memorizations. We have developed a serious game for the elderly named ‘Paldokangsan3’ which is a walking game strengthening legs as well as the ability of memorization with the interface of motion capture using Kinect. Also we have evaluated the usability test of ‘Paldokangsan3’. This game machine has been installed in a senior house for one month that the elderly could play the game as they like in the house. Most participants played 2–3 times a day for a month even though most of them are suffering mild cognition impairment. They showed good subjective satisfactions in their interviews that we could go on the project further to expand its applications.