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View all- Hill JCorke ESalawu MCotterell ERussell MGibbons JMu TKarnik A(2021)Point of ContactProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/34747015:CHI PLAY(1-19)Online publication date: 6-Oct-2021
Designing a serious game for community-based disease prevention in the Amazon
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Saturnino Luz, 
Masood Masoodian, Manuel Cesario, Raquel Rangel Cesario, Bill RogersAuthors Info & Claims
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Many developing regions around the world rely on community-based healthcare strategies and practices to deal with prevention and control of often neglected diseases, by educating the local population and healthcare professionals, on the mechanisms by which such diseases spread and how they can be controlled. In this paper we describe a multiplayer serious game designed to raise awareness, and foster adoption of preventive measures among local citizens and community-health professionals about Leishmaniosis. We also discuss how the underlying concept for this game and its mechanics have been iteratively designed and developed in collaboration with a group of people with relevant medical and research expertise as well as practical knowledge resulting from working with our target population.
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