TY  - CONF
AU  - Stach, Christoph
AU  - Schlindwein, Luiz Fernando M.
A2  - Giordano, Silvia
A2  - Langheinrich, Marc
A2  - Puccinelli, Daniele
A2  - Ranganathan, Anand
A2  - Curcio, Igor
T1  - Candy Castle — A Prototype for Pervasive Health Games
T2  - Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
PB  - IEEE
AD  - Lugano
Y1  - 2012/march
SP  - 501
EP  - 503
M3  - https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197547
KW  - pervasive application; health game; health education; data analysis
N2  - Serious games have primarily the function to educate and train, and secondly to entertain. We present a serious game used for the treatment of diabetes and for teaching a diabetes-aware lifestyle. The game encourages the player to walk around in his / her surrounding and check the blood sugar level in as many different places as possible. Undoubtedly, the special feature of Candy Castle is our feedback loop which can be used for on-the-fly data analysis and automatic adaptation of the application. Thus, the patients as well as their doctors can be automatically alerted if their blood values deteriorate. In this demo paper, we explain both the design of the game as well as some interesting implementation aspects of our prototype. Even though we concern just on the topic of mobile games, all introduced techniques can be transferred to a general setting and used in any other mobile application.
ER  -