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Although a large number of publications examine serious games in elderly care, there are rather few publications related to the practical implementation within the elderly care processes. In general, rehabilitation orientated games should incorporate entertainment (motivation) and relevant therapeutic content (rehabilitation) in order to be effective. Regardless of the game design, successful implementation of the games in elderly care is paramount to benefit the end user. In this paper, two mobile games were investigated as a case study. To investigate the therapeutic content of the games, the game outcomes (game scores and time stamps) were automatically recorded to facilitate analysis of the participant\u2019s progress during the trial. To investigate motivation, user feedback was collected through observation of the game trials and by interviewing the nursing staff and the participants (test group). The gaming service implementation was designed in collaboration with the nursing staff and researchers, according to an experimentation-driven approach, in which the service model ideas were tested by the professionals before piloting. In both countries, the players and the nursing staff found the games showed potential as self-managed rehabilitation tools. Other significant effects of gameplay were enhanced recreation and self-managed activity level. Despite cultural differences, the gaming experience was amazingly similar and improvements in game scores were also observed during the trial in both countries. The biggest difference between the pilots was the implementation process, which led to the development of two different service models that are reported in this paper. In Finland, the games were embedded into the care practices and the nursing staff were responsible for the piloting. In China, the games were independent of the care process and an external service provider (the researcher) managed the piloting. The findings imply that service design in different cultures should be carefully considered when implementing new digital services.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/info10020055","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,2,11]],"date-time":"2019-02-11T03:26:01Z","timestamp":1549855561000},"page":"55","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Implementing Mobile Games into Care Services\u2014Service Models for Finnish and Chinese Elderly Care"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0845-814X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sari","family":"Merilampi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Technology, Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, 28130 Pori, Finland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Antti","family":"Koivisto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Technology, Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, 28130 Pori, Finland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mirka","family":"Leino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Technology, Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, 28130 Pori, Finland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nuno","family":"Pombo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Informatics, Instituto de Telecomunica\u00e7\u00f5es (IT), University of Beira Interior, 6201-001 Covilh\u00e3, Portugal"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Virginie","family":"Felizardo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Informatics, Instituto de Telecomunica\u00e7\u00f5es (IT), University of Beira Interior, 6201-001 Covilh\u00e3, Portugal"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jue","family":"Lu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Nursing, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Anja","family":"Poberznik","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Technology, Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, 28130 Pori, Finland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2216-7296","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Johanna","family":"Virkki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, 33720 Tampere, Finland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,2,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"(2019, February 05). 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