Octopus: um modelo de gamification para auxílio no cuidado ubíquo de doenças crônicas não transmissíveis

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2008 died around 36 million people due to chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) worldwide. For these type of diseases is needed a permanent and continuous treatment, to against this there are models for ubiquitous care of noncommunicable diseases that meet these needs. However it was not found any generic model regarding the treatment of different NCDs, aimed at encouraging the use of context sensitive resources to promote the change of user behavior. Facing this, there are tools like gamification, which is characterized by the use of game elements in contexts that are not games, this tool promotes the change in behavior by encouraging the user through the use rewards. Considering this concept was developed Octopus model, a gamification model to aid in the ubiquitous care of NCDs, which explores the use of context sensitive resources that help the ubiquitous care of NCDs. Unlike other studies, this model is generic as to the treatment of NCDs, supports any public, uses context awareness and resources trails. A prototype of the model was evaluated through the use of scenarios, based on this evaluation was possible to verify the model’s viability and the support for several NCDs proving the generic aspect of the model.