A Review on Gaming Effects on Cognitive Load for Smart Healthcare and Its Security

Abstract

Constructive and damaging effects of video game playing on the human brain have been emerging areas of study . It has been proved that playing a video game for a certain time also has some advantages like slowing aging, enhancing learning ability, improving hand-eye coordination, and even physical fitness can be improved by playing games associated with sports. However, there are many disadvantages if the player becomes addicted to a specific game. Unfortunately, many scientists proved that video games affect our mental and physical health negatively. It affects our attention, academic performance, and eyesight. Playing it on a daily basis causes aggression and continuously playing the game for a long time directly affects the human brain. Cognitive load is a mental process to detect the current situation of the human mind. The cognitive load is increased when brain complexity increases and vice versa. To detect the cognitive load, electroencephalography by placing electrodes of different positions on the scalp can be used.