Playmancer Project: A Serious Videogame as Additional Therapy Tool for Eating and Impulse Control Disorders

By Susanna Jiménez-Murcia, Fernando Fernandez Aranda, Elias Kalapanidas, Dimitri Konstantas, Todor Ganchev, Otilia Kocsis, Tony Lam, Juanjo Santamaría, Thierry Raguin, Christian Breiteneder, Hannes Kaufmann, and Costas Davarakis

Abstract

Reviews and few non-controlled studies showed the effectiveness of several specific designed computer video-games as an additional form of treatment in several areas. However, there is a lack in the literature of specially designed serious-games for treating mental disorders. Playmancer (ICT European initiative) aims to develop and assess a serious videogame that may help to treat underlying processes (e.g. lack of self-control strategies) in Eating and Impulse control disorders. Preliminary data will be shown.

Reference

S. Jiménez-Murcia, F. Fernandez Aranda, E. Kalapanidas, D. Konstantas, T. Ganchev, O. Kocsis, T. Lam, J. Santamaría, T. Raguin, C. Breiteneder, H. Kaufmann, C. Davarakis: "Playmancer Project: A Serious Videogame as Additional Therapy Tool for Eating and Impulse Control Disorders"; in: "Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine 2009: Advanced Technologies in the Behavioral, Social and Neurosciences", B. Wiederhold, G. Riva (ed.); IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2009, ISBN: 978-1-60750-017-9, 163 - 166.

BibTeX

@incollection{TUW-176087,     author = {Jim{\'e}nez-Murcia, Susanna and Fernandez Aranda, Fernando and Kalapanidas, Elias and Konstantas, Dimitri and Ganchev, Todor and Kocsis, Otilia and Lam, Tony and Santamar{\'\i}a, Juanjo and Raguin, Thierry and Breiteneder, Christian and Kaufmann, Hannes and Davarakis, Costas},     title = {Playmancer Project: A Serious Videogame as Additional Therapy Tool for Eating and Impulse Control Disorders},     booktitle = {Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine 2009: Advanced Technologies in the Behavioral, Social and Neurosciences},     year = {2009},     editor = {Wiederhold, Brenda and Riva, Guiseppe},     pages = {163--166},     publisher = {IOS Press},     address = {Amsterdam},     url = {http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_176087.pdf},     isbn = {978-1-60750-017-9},     keywords = {Serious games, mental disorders, cognitive-behavioral therapy} } Click into the text area and press Ctrl+A/Ctrl+C or ⌘+A/⌘+C to copy the BibTeX into your clipboard… or download the BibTeX.