Redesign and New Evaluation of a Pervasive Game for Older Adults

Alberto Urquía, Jesús Gallardo, Raquel Lacuesta, Joan-Josep Ordóñez-Bonet, Silvia Ramis-Guarinos

2025

Abstract

Older adults are a growing segment of the population. Many aspects of technology could help this sector improve different facets of their daily lives. One such aspect is video games, something with which older adults are becoming increasingly familiar. Within video games, a field that has grown a lot in recent years is that of pervasive games, those that break some of the classic spatial, temporal or social limits that classic video games have. Following this trend, we developed a pervasive mobile game designed for older adults inspired by Pokémon Go that consisted of players having to move through a physical space to locate real objects that would allow them to unlock memories that were stored in an album. The game had a lot of room for improvement in terms of its visual aspect, and to improve it a redesign and evaluation has been carried out, resulting in a new interface for the application, along with a series of modifications to the game mechanics and introduction of additional ones that allow branching the game experience towards different profiles and needs. In addition, the problems related to its accessibility and usability have been addressed through a series of considerations that can be extrapolated to the design of applications for older adults.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Urquía A., Gallardo J., Lacuesta R., Ordóñez-Bonet J. and Ramis-Guarinos S. (2025). Redesign and New Evaluation of a Pervasive Game for Older Adults. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE; ISBN 978-989-758-743-6, SciTePress, pages 114-125. DOI: 10.5220/0013426700003938

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ict4awe25,
author={Alberto Urquía and Jesús Gallardo and Raquel Lacuesta and Joan-Josep Ordóñez-Bonet and Silvia Ramis-Guarinos},
title={Redesign and New Evaluation of a Pervasive Game for Older Adults},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE},
year={2025},
pages={114-125},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013426700003938},
isbn={978-989-758-743-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE
TI - Redesign and New Evaluation of a Pervasive Game for Older Adults
SN - 978-989-758-743-6
AU - Urquía A.
AU - Gallardo J.
AU - Lacuesta R.
AU - Ordóñez-Bonet J.
AU - Ramis-Guarinos S.
PY - 2025
SP - 114
EP - 125
DO - 10.5220/0013426700003938
PB - SciTePress