Designing a Digital Games System for Older Adults-Using a Simulated System as an Example

• Main Authors: Chun-Jung Chen, 陳俊融
• Other Authors: Dyi-Yih Michael Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27098235491455012077

碩士 === 義守大學 === 工業工程與管理學系碩士班 === 98 === The present study examined the extent to which digital learning incorporated with games could enhance the older adult’s acquisition of procedural knowledge. A total of thirty subjects aged over 65 years old participated in a split-plot experiment where age learning media and type of feedback were manipulated as independent variables. Learning media was defined as a between-group factor and consisted of three levels of treatment, namely, simple multimedia display (SMD), multimedia-based interactive learning (MIL), and game-based learning (GBL). Feedback was defined as a group factor and consisted of treatments of result feedback and interpretative feedback. Learning performance was measured by recall hit rate and subjective user experience. A simulated ticket purchasing system was developed to serve as the application domain. The results indicated that with respect to the hit rate, only the learning media showed a significant main effect, while feedback and the interaction between media and feedback did not result in a significant difference. A tukey post-hoc paired analysis revealed that the effect of leaning media was mainly derived from the superiority of GBL over MIL and SMD respectively. Analysis of subjective ratings with regard to preference among the three media showed the same pattern as that for the hit rate data. Implications for design of digital learning, particularly game-based digital learning for older adults were discussed in details.