What is it about?
It is important to raise awareness of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills associated with social anxiety disorder. We made a serious game targeting university students, as 10-25% within this group have impaired functioning due to social anxiety. The game was designed in Unity with three different scenarios. The game was successful in terms of focused attention, attentional focus, aesthetic appeal, and narrative understanding.
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Why is it important?
To raise awareness of social anxiety disorder and provide specific information and help. Further, it is important with improved user evaluations within serious games. In this study we outline specific strategies and results evaluating a serious game.
Perspectives
There are much further perspectives in how serious games can be used in psychology, and social anxiety disorder.
Thomas Bjørner
Aalborg Universitet
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This page is a summary of: How to design and evaluate a serious game aiming at awareness of therapy skills associated with social anxiety disorder, September 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3411170.3411249.
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