Kids under treatments that involve long stays at a hospital or health center
tend to get bored or depressed because of the lack of social interaction with
family and friends. Such a situation also affects the evolution and
effec-tiveness of their treatments. This article presents a mobile ubiquitous
game called MagicRace, which allows hospitalized kinds to interact socially
with one another, without putting to risk their sensitive health conditions.
The game does not require a communication infrastructure at the hospital, but
instead, it uses a mobile ad hoc network composed of the handhelds used by the
kids to play