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However, since ADHD is not a simple disease that can be diagnosed with a simple test, doctors require a large period of time and substantial effort for accurate diagnosis and treatment. Currently, ADHD classification studies using various datasets and machine learning or deep learning algorithms are actively being conducted for the screening diagnosis of ADHD. However, there has been no study of ADHD classification using only skeleton data. It was hypothesized that the main symptoms of ADHD, such as distraction, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, could be differentiated through skeleton data. Thus, we devised a game system for the screening and diagnosis of children\u2019s ADHD and acquired children\u2019s skeleton data using five Azure Kinect units equipped with depth sensors, while the game was being played. The game for screening diagnosis involves a robot first travelling on a specific path, after which the child must remember the path the robot took and then follow it. The skeleton data used in this study were divided into two categories: standby data, obtained when a child waits while the robot demonstrates the path; and game data, obtained when a child plays the game. The acquired data were classified using the RNN series of GRU, RNN, and LSTM algorithms; a bidirectional layer; and a weighted cross-entropy loss function. 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