A free game for iOS and Android, called Sea Hero Quest, is now available for those users who are interested in helping to gather data on dementia.
The Sea Hero Quest is the creation of a large European conwork, in which she also participates Cosmote, and aims to gather data around dementia. Data which, according to the creators, will help in the development of new diagnostic tests for the disease.
The purpose of the game is to find the way through islands and iceberg mazes, with the navigation data recorded. Measurements have to do with dementia disease as the first impact that people living with dementia experience is the loss of spatial orientation, even in familiar places and environments. The final form of the disease is the severe loss of general mental capacity such as memory loss, perception,
The offer of the game at research is quite important. After all, according to the research team "if 100.000 people play this particular game for 2 minutes each, the data collected corresponds to more than 50 years of research".
Those interested in participating in the whole effort can download the game for free at smartphone or tablets them from here.
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