Increasing Awareness of Alzheimer’s Disease through a Mobile Game (Beverley Cook and Philip Twidle) Interactive Technologies and Games (ITAG) Conference 2016 Health, Disability and EducationDates: Wednesday 26 October 2016 - Thursday 27 October 2016 Location: The Council House, NG1 2DT

1. Increasing Awareness of Alzheimer’s
Disease
through a Mobile Gameitle page
Bev Cook
Phil Twidle

2. • Background
• Development
• Evaluation
• Next steps
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Overview

3. • Work undertaken as Final Year Project for BSc
(Hons) Computing
• Aimed to increase awareness of the symptoms
of dementia via a interactive story
• Using iterative, user-centric development
techniques
3
Background

4. • Stage 1 – initial
ideas based on
research into
existing games
• Paper prototype
4
Development

5. • Stage 1 – key messages
• Add ability to share on social media
• Make selections buttons rather than text
• Chapter summaries needed to link the
chapters together
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Development

6. • Stage 2 – develop chapter one for a real
device
• test app design, layout and navigation
• Key messages: make buttons look better,
have bespoke images
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Development

7. • Stage 3 – add further chapters, saving and
sharing
• With more text, issues with formatting and
inconsistent wording were identified.
• Notifications needed when saving and
restoring data
7
Development

8. • Stage 4 – compatibility on different devices
• Highlighted where size was a issue
8
Development

9. • Stage 5 – full story implemented
• [Video of app]
9
Development

10. • Testing used pre- and post- questionnaires to
assess the change in knowledge after use of
the game.
• Most users reported they had learned or
been reminded of something by using the
game.
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Evaluation

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Evaluation

12. Validate story with experts
Improve game aspects
Release and evaluate effectiveness
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Next steps

13. Thank you
Any questions?