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Free Your Brain a Working Memory Training Game

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Games and Learning Alliance (GALA 2014)

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Working memory training systems are designed to improve the user’s working memory. However, current systems are frequently considered tedious deeply affecting the user’s motivation and consequently the potential for training derived improvements. “Free Your Brain” is a brain training game combining insights from cognitive neuropsychological theories and flow theories. In this work we describe the game and its design process specifically establishing the link between the supporting theoretical background research and the developed solution.

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    http://www.cogmed.com/.

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    http://www.lumosity.com/.

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    Such that they are the frequently used as the basic determinants of Flow Theory prediction.

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    Assuming an error free progression.

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Acknowledgment

Work supported by GaLA (Games & Learning Alliance) Network of Excellence funded by the EU in FP7-ICT-2009-5 under grant agreement no: 258169, by FCT(INESC-ID multi annual funding) under project PEst-OE/EEI/LA0021/2013 and FCT scholarship SFRH/BD/66663/2009. The authors are grateful to António Brisson for game development assistance and Vanessa Hinterleitner, René Stefitz for assets creation and Dimitris Skliris for technical assistance.

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  1. INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida Professor Cavaco Silva, Porto Salvo, Portugal

    Gonçalo Pereira, Rui Prada & Ana Paiva

  2. Department of Psychology, Section Neuropsychology, University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 2/III, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Manuel Ninaus, Guilherme Wood & Christa Neuper

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Pereira, G., Ninaus, M., Prada, R., Wood, G., Neuper, C., Paiva, A. (2015). Free Your Brain a Working Memory Training Game. In: De Gloria, A. (eds) Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9221. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22960-7_13

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