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BibliographyStach, Christoph; Schlindwein, Luiz Fernando: Candy Castle - A Prototype for Pervasive Health Games.
In: Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops); Lugano, Switzerland, March 19-23, 2012.
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
pp. 1-4, english.
IEEE, March 2012.
Article in Proceedings (Demonstration).
CR-SchemaK.4 (Computers and Society)
Keywordspervasive application; health game; health education; data analysis
Abstract

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.

Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems
Entry dateMarch 26, 2012
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