Mini-SPACE: Serious Game Data for Unsupervised Cognitive Impairment Screening

A study evaluating the reliability and validity of mini-SPACE, an iPad-based serious game for detecting early cognitive impairment. Participants played the game unsupervised at home once a week for three weeks. The dataset, authored by Nana Tian and last updated in June 2026, includes test-retest reliability, usability, and cognitive load measures.

Use Cases

• Assessing test-retest reliability of digital cognitive assessments based on unsupervised, repeated gameplay.
• Modeling the relationship between age and performance in digital cognitive games based on the described predictor.
• Investigating the utility of repeated measures for predicting standard cognitive scores based on the improvement with MoCA.
• Evaluating the usability and cognitive load of serious games for elderly populations based on the described metrics.

Strengths

• Data collection involved unsupervised, at-home use over three weeks, suggesting ecological validity.
• The study design includes a more challenging version of the game in the final week, providing a performance gradient.
• License is CC-BY-4.0, allowing for broad reuse and sharing.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Clinical diagnostic accuracy of the tool remains to be established, as noted in the description.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Participants played the mini-SPACE game at home without supervision.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 10:27:01; freshness should be verified.