NEW YORK: Deutsche Telekom has launched a brand new mobile game to help in the fight against dementia, with just two minutes of gameplay able to provide five hours worth of essential dementia research.
The game, called Sea Hero Quest, has been designed by scientists from University College London, University of East Anglia, Alzheimer’s Research UK and game designers from Glitchers.
The multi-platform title is specifically designed to help advance our understanding of spatial navigation and how this aspect of our brain works, as part of a co-ordinated effort to bring the world a step closer to manage the growing threat of dementia.
It would in theory take over 300 minutes, or five hours, of traditional research to gather as much data as from just one person playing Sea Hero Quest for two minutes….