Diabetic Mario: designing and evaluating mobile games for diabetes education Baghaei, Nilufar, Nandigam, David, Casey, John, Direito, Artur and Maddison, Ralph 2016, Diabetic Mario: designing and evaluating mobile games for diabetes education, Games for health journal, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 270-278, doi: 10.1089/g4h.2015.0038. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Diabetic Mario: designing and evaluating mobile games for diabetes education Author(s) Baghaei, Nilufar Nandigam, David Casey, John Direito, Artur Maddison, Ralph orcid.org/0000-0001-8564-5518 Journal name Games for health journal Volume number 5 Issue number 4 Start page 270 End page 278 Total pages 9 Publisher Mary Ann Liebert Place of publication New Rochelle, N.Y. Publication date 2016-08-01 ISSN 2161-7856 Summary Traditionally, diabetes education has relied on written materials, with limited resources available for children with diabetes. Mobile games can be effective and motivating tools for the promotion of children's health. In our earlier work, we proposed a novel approach for designing computer games aimed at educating children with diabetes. In this article, we apply our game design to a mobile Android game (Mario Brothers). We also introduce four heuristics that are specifically designed for evaluating the mobile game, by adapting traditional usability heuristics. Results of a pilot study (n = 12) to evaluate gameplay over 1-week showed that the children found the game engaging and improved their knowledge of healthy diet and lifestyle. Language eng DOI 10.1089/g4h.2015.0038 Field of Research 110699 Human Movement and Sports Science not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 920104 Diabetes HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2016, Mary Ann Liebert Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30084520 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 30 Jun 2016, 09:40:58 EST Fri, 01 Jul 2016, 10:58:21 EST Fri, 01 Jul 2016, 12:47:42 EST Fri, 01 Jul 2016, 13:03:28 EST Sat, 23 Jul 2016, 06:08:40 EST Fri, 12 Aug 2016, 14:23:28 EST Fri, 12 Aug 2016, 14:34:47 EST Fri, 12 Aug 2016, 14:36:08 EST Wed, 12 Oct 2016, 15:32:06 EST Wed, 09 Nov 2016, 11:49:19 EST Wed, 01 Mar 2017, 08:09:54 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 6 times in TR Web of Science Cited 9 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 313 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 01 Jul 2016, 10:58:21 EST

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