Jogo pervasivo para prevenção do cancro da pele

• Autor(a) principal: Diogo Pinto Jorge Ribeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/85710
• topic: Engenharia electrotécnica, electrónica e informática; Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

Skin cancer is a dangerous disease, often caused by the lack of prevention. This work, made in collaboration with Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro, aims for the development of a serious game that can promote behavioral change, in this case, the reduction of certain risk behaviors for the prevention of this disease. Through the promotion of the behavioral change, serious games can be a contribution factor for this problem, this being the main focus of this work. Serious games are games with a strong educational component, with the goal to promote the awareness and learning of a certain set of facts or theme. To better contextualize, pervasive game elements will be used. In this kind of games, interactions with both the virtual world, in the digital component of the game, and the surrounding world are explored.