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Development of a serious game to assess attention for children  

Choi, Moon gee (Department of Liberal Arts, Konyang University)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Computer Game / v.31, no.4, 2018 , pp. 1-8 More about this Journal
Abstract
The present study investigated the validity of a serious game named 'Draw Ttoring' developed for accessment of children's attention and tried to provide the basic information about it. To this goal, we tested it to 284 elementary school students in measuring various behavior data(reaction time, total playing time, correct rate, discrepancy between type of TMT). Futhermore, the behavior data was compared with academic achievement to see the external validity. In results, 'Draw Ttoring' showed various behavior data and correlation with academic achievement. In Type A of TMT, total time and reaction time had a correlation with academic achievement, while, in Type B of TMT, total time and correct rate did. Mental flexibility calculated by the discrepancy between Type A and Type B showed also the positive correlation with academic achievement. These results showed that the serious game named 'Draw Ttoring' can provide more various information about children attention and these can't be observed by traditional paper pencil test. Finally, serious game can provide an good alternative method to access children's cognition.
Keywords
Serious game; Attention; Trail Making Test; Processing speed and accuracy; Mental flexibility;
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