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Non-communicable chronic diseases represent one of the most serious health problems in the world. The development of Gamified applications for monitoring health treatments is one of the strategies that has been used to contribute to this problem. This work proposes a framework with Gamification elements to facilitate the development of applications focused on the treatment of chronic non-communicable diseases. Scenarios were used to evaluate the framework. The framework is targeted to developers providing the main structures used in the development of gamified applications aimed at non-communicable diseases patients. Tests show that the proposed framework is easily extensible and reduces development effort.
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Borges, J.P.B., de Albuquerque, E.S., Ambrósio, A.P.L. (2019). A Framework to Develop Gamified Health Applications to Aid the Treatment of Non-communicable Diseases. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST'19 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 932. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16187-3_11
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