Universidad de Los Andes

Specification of Users' Cognitive Functions and Emotions to Promote Their Training Through Serious Games

The authors present a cognitive-affective model for designing serious games that train cognitive functions and regulate emotions, with a case study in the mining sector.

• The authors argue that the mining accident analysed in the case study identified a low perception of risk as a contributing factor, so perception was selected as the cognitive function to train.
• The validation used four participants, a sample the authors describe as small because mining workers have limited time and travel to mine sites is difficult.
• The authors state that in the validation, the cognitive test was suggested but not applied.