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TANGO:H: Creating Active Educational Games for Hospitalized Children

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This paper presents an interactive platform called TANGO:H (Tangible Goals: Health) for the creation of social active play with gestural interaction. This platform has been specially designed and adapted for its recreational, educational and rehabilitation use in children at hospital. The platform has a game editor called TANGO:H Designer, which allows the creation of physical and cognitive exercises in single and multiplayer, so that children can play sequentially or simultaneously both competitively and collaboratively. Similarly, the design of the platform was taken into account various criteria of playability and gamification to maximize the user experience with the game. This article presents the requirements that have been followed in the design of Tango-H, and the developed solution.

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  1. Department of Engineering Systems and Automation and Architecture and Computer Technology, University of La Laguna, Laguna, Spain

    Carina Soledad González, Pedro Toledo, Elena Santos & Mariana Cairos

  2. Institute of Renewable Technology and Energy(ITER), Tenerife, Spain

    Miguel Padrón

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  1. Carina Soledad González
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  1. (CITIC-UGR), Department Computer Science and, University of Granada, Granada, 18071, Spain

    Jorge Casillas

  2. , Dept. Business Administration, University of Granada, Granada, 18071, Spain

    Francisco J. Martínez-López

  3. UFRGS, Department of Computer Systems, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, 91501-970, Brazil

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    Fernando De la Prieta

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González, C.S., Toledo, P., Padrón, M., Santos, E., Cairos, M. (2013). TANGO:H: Creating Active Educational Games for Hospitalized Children. In: Casillas, J., Martínez-López, F., Vicari, R., De la Prieta, F. (eds) Management Intelligent Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 220. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00569-0_17

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