A Serious Game for Promoting Positive Attitudes towards Nursing Homes among Youth

Cassandra Folkins, Emily Read, Jeff Mundee, Max V. Birk, Scott Bateman

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Samenvatting

As the population ages, nursing homes (long term residential care facilities for older adults) are facing a crisis. Currently, there are too few people pursuing career opportunities in the field, which can be largely attributed to the negative stereotypes towards aging and nursing homes. Because young people, aged 10-14 years, are at a critical point where they are beginning to consider potential career paths, we investigate the impact of countering negative stereotypes on the attitudes of young people using a serious game. Journey Through Carington House is a point-and-click serious game for young people that focuses on providing positive experiences as a resident assistant in a nursing home environment. In this work, we present the game's design and a study with 22 young people. We find that narrative in serious games can be a tool for influencing young peoples? views of older adults, and to help them better understand nursing homes and consider them as future workplaces.

Originele taal-2Engels
TitelCHI PLAY 2020 - Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
UitgeverijAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pagina's484-498
Aantal pagina's15
ISBN van elektronische versie9781450380744
DOI's
StatusGepubliceerd - 2 nov. 2020
Evenement7th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, CHI PLAY 2020 - Virtual, Online, Canada
Duur: 2 nov. 20204 nov. 2020
https://chiplay.acm.org/2020/

Congres

Congres7th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, CHI PLAY 2020
Land/RegioCanada
StadVirtual, Online
Periode2/11/204/11/20
Internet adres

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Financiering

This research was supported by Mitacs and NSERC. We would like to thank the New Brunswick Association of Nursing Homes, First Mobile Education and our participants.

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