New Trend of Serious Game: Video Game for Cognitive Capability Training of the Aged

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As an experience digital game, serious game takes training, education or treatment as its purposes, social learning, identity projection and other theories as development bases. It is featured with scientificity, multi-modal, narrative and exploration, and has been widely applied in such fields as military, education and healthcare, etc. In recent years, with increasing number of countries confronted with aging population problem, many researchers gradually shift attention to cognitive capacity training of the elderly by virtue of serious game. The article intends to discuss the research situation of video game for the aged as well as development direction of Chinese video game for the aged, by elaborating video game features for the aged and its significant advantages of prevention of Alzheimer’s disease.

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