Increasing Awareness of Alzheimer's Disease through a Mobile Game

Dementia affects hundreds of thousands of people inthe UK, and this figure is rising. Many of these people do nothave an official diagnosis, which may somewhat be down to lackof knowledge and understanding of the symptoms. Games haveoften been used to raise awareness of issues within healthcare, and this is increasing through the introduction of Mobile SeriousGames. This paper describes the design, development andevaluation of a text-based mobile game to increase awareness ofthe symptoms of dementia - specifically Alzheimer's Disease. Byutilizing user-centric design, a high-quality application has beendeveloped that has been shown increase knowledge of symptomsand behaviours relating to Alzheimer's Disease.