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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Autores principales: Sami Pohjolainen, Leena Arhippainen, Paula Alavesa, Juho Mattila, Jarkko Tuovinen
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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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topic mobile games
serious games
social distancing
behavioral change
covid-19
Telecommunication
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behavioral change
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Sami Pohjolainen
Leena Arhippainen
Paula Alavesa
Juho Mattila
Jarkko Tuovinen
Unus Terra: Developing a Serious Game to Foster Social Distancing During the Pandemic
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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author Sami Pohjolainen
Leena Arhippainen
Paula Alavesa
Juho Mattila
Jarkko Tuovinen
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title Unus Terra: Developing a Serious Game to Foster Social Distancing During the Pandemic
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title_fullStr Unus Terra: Developing a Serious Game to Foster Social Distancing During the Pandemic
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