Unus Terra: Developing a Serious Game to Foster Social Distancing During the Pandemic

This paper introduces a serious mobile game to foster social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the game is to reach younger audiences and engage them in social distancing practices. Younger people often have a lower compliance towards these types of practices, so we see a casua...

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Main Authors:	Sami Pohjolainen, Leena Arhippainen, Paula Alavesa, Juho Mattila, Jarkko Tuovinen
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Language:	EN
Published:	FRUCT 2021
Subjects:	mobile games serious games social distancing behavioral change covid-19 Telecommunication TK5101-6720
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:94bdf9ad4d0b406093985a96ef3189cd2021-11-20T15:59:33ZUnus Terra: Developing a Serious Game to Foster Social Distancing During the Pandemic2305-72542343-073710.5281/zenodo.5639772https://doaj.org/article/94bdf9ad4d0b406093985a96ef3189cd2021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.fruct.org/publications/acm30/files/Poh.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2305-7254https://doaj.org/toc/2343-0737This paper introduces a serious mobile game to foster social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the game is to reach younger audiences and engage them in social distancing practices. Younger people often have a lower compliance towards these types of practices, so we see a casual game that also aims to be fun as a solution to improve their compliance over time. We report our findings from the study that was conducted to assess an early access version of the game, where the game was tested remotely by 15 players.Sami PohjolainenLeena ArhippainenPaula AlavesaJuho MattilaJarkko TuovinenFRUCTarticlemobile gamesserious gamessocial distancingbehavioral changecovid-19TelecommunicationTK5101-6720ENProceedings of the XXth Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT, Vol 30, Iss 2, Pp 359-366 (2021)
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description	This paper introduces a serious mobile game to foster social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the game is to reach younger audiences and engage them in social distancing practices. Younger people often have a lower compliance towards these types of practices, so we see a casual game that also aims to be fun as a solution to improve their compliance over time. We report our findings from the study that was conducted to assess an early access version of the game, where the game was tested remotely by 15 players.
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title	Unus Terra: Developing a Serious Game to Foster Social Distancing During the Pandemic
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Unus Terra: Developing a Serious Game to Foster Social Distancing During the Pandemic

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