ElderGames develop IST-based games using advanced visualisation and interaction interfaces with high preventive, therapeutic value that will allow elderly people to enjoy new ways of leisure and entertainment while improving cognitive, functional and social skills.

Project funded by the European Commission

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Innovation

The main innovation-related activities to be undertaken in the ElderGames project will be:

  • Research on the specific needs of elderly people in creating a motivating environment through an entertainment offer using advanced technologies that will improve and for the first time monitor variables related to the quality of life, with particular emphasis on cognitive skills in old age.
  • Research on the adequacy of play in old age regarding the improving of the physical, physic and social and affective health.
  • Research on the adaptation of the Information and Communication Technologies for play-related therapeutic intervention among elderly people.
  • Research on the use of Mixed Reality technologies by the elderly people and how related applications can be used as innovative play-related-therapeutic tools.
 



 
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