14. A Serious Game Design for Sustaining Concentration and Improving Reading Comprehension of Children with ADHD

Title(KR)

• ADHD 아동의 집중도 유지 및 읽기이해를 위한 기능성게임 디자인

Title(ENG)

• 14. A Serious Game Design for Sustaining Concentration and Improving Reading Comprehension of Children with ADHD

Keywords(KR)

• Interactive Fairy tale Serious Game, Reading Comprehension of children with ADHD, Sustain attention concentration, BCI

Keywords(ENG)

• Interactive Fairy tale Serious Game, Reading Comprehension of children with ADHD, Sustain attention concentration, BCI

Author

• Seungie Park, Kyungeun Park, and Taesuk Kihl

Abstract(ENG)

This study designs an interactive serious game for children with ADHD to sustain attention concentration and improve their reading comprehension skill. This serious game enables to read fairy tale interactively. The fairy tale consists of 6 sequences and the game assigns tasks for concentration training to 2, 4, 5, and 6 sequences. Executing concentration task, MindWave BCI is used to measure brain waves and to judge success of failure of the task with that measurement. Game play data and concentration data were stored in a sever real time. As the experiment progressed, the concentration levels of the participants are sustained stable. The results of paired t-test on pre- and post- reading ability, short reading comprehension, and story understanding are significant. It is expected that this study will help game design for children with ADHD as well as reading disability.

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