Serious game as a tool to intellectual disabilities therapy: Total challenge

摘要

Nowadays there are games that involving a challenge and using a reward system are designed to solve problems in several areas. These games, called serious games, do not put aside the entertainment, although this is not their main purpose. Among the problems that can be solved or at least mitigated with the help of serious games, there are highlighted those involving health care and especially intellectual disabilities. Despite the existence of a variety of serious games intended to minimize health problems, there is still much work to be conducted within the problems related to intellectual deficiency. Thus, this study intends to investigate the evolution of patients with intellectual disabilities using a serious game capable of monitoring their evolution, concerning memory, decision-making time, capacity of observation, learning and applying knowledge.