Advances in new technologies can provide solutions to prevent impairments associated with normal aging, track performance at specific tasks, and provide an entertaining experience to elderly people. Based on these premises we present Eldergames, an EU funded project that aims at creating an interactive tool for preserving cognitive functions impaired by aging and affording sociability. A first prototype has recently been created and its acceptance has been tested on groups of elderly users. The prototype proved able to provide a pleasant social cognitive training because of its simplicity, usability of the interface, and multiplayer architecture.
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