Technologies of inclusive well-being: serious games, alternative realities, and play therapy

摘要

The content of this book lies at the intersection of three specialties: medicine, virtual world technology, and research. As though that did not make it difficult enough to review, each of these conceptual categories is, in turn, populated with a highly diverse range of topics. For example, the medical content ranges from memory and cognitive problems to physical disabilities. The technology content includes serious games, which are video games created for purposes other than entertainment, and a variety of realities from artificial to virtual to augmented. The parts on research cover design research, pilot studies, proof-of-concept prototypes, experiments, and in-depth testing; they also present some impressive statistics.