Serious Games for seniors: Learning safe behaviors on the web : Position paper

In a modern society, seniors want to be a part of the digital world and the research in progress seeks to present whether through Serious Games can help their learning process and understanding of cybersecurity when online browsing, namely, deciding which actions to make when facing an eminent threat. this position paper aims to presents a new research on how Serious Games can help seniors to become more aware in the cybersecurity theme and how to be more careful when search the web. In this research the methodology apply is the Action Research, by identifying the problem -lack of knowledge that seniors have on the online threats and promoting an action -the Serious Game played to teach and motivate the senior to become safer online.