A serious game is a type of game that is designed for a primary purpose other than
entertainment. Instead, serious games are intended to achieve specific goals, such as …

BackgroundThere has been an increase in the development and application of serious
games to support management of mental ill health, but their full impact is unclear …

Background: Serious games have emerged as an innovative educational strategy with the
potential to significantly enhance the quality and effectiveness of cardiopulmonary …

Background Chronic disease self-management is a public health issue of worldwide
concern, and gamification is an emerging strategy to improve patients' participation in …

Background Lassitude and a rather high degree of mistrust toward the authorities can make
regular or overly constraining COVID-19 infection prevention and control campaigns …

Digital interventions often suffer from low usage, which may reflect insufficient attention to
user experience. Moreover, the existing evaluation methods have limited applicability in the …

Background Digital interventions are typically evaluated by their effectiveness and
engagement, while the characteristics of patients who perceive them to be attractive have …

Poorly annotated data is a common problem for data-intensive applications like supervised
machine learning. In domains like healthcare, annotation tasks require specific domain …

Game elements are increasingly used to improve user engagement in digital mental health
interventions, and specific game mechanics may yield therapeutic effects per se and thereby …

Background: Cognitive stimulation of older people helps prevent, and even treat, age-
related diseases, such as mild cognitive impairment. Playing games reduces the probability …