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Engaging children in diabetes education through mobile games
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posted on 2017-01-01, 00:00 authored by N Baghaei, J Casey, D Nandigam, A Sarrafzadeh, Ralph MaddisonRalph MaddisonTraditional methods for diabetic education rely heavily on written materials and there is only a limited amount of resources targeted at educating diabetic children. Mobile games can be effective, evidence-based, and motivating tools for the promotion of children's health. In our earlier work, we proposed a novel approach for designing computer games aimed for educating children with diabetes and applied our design strategy to a mobile Android game (Mario Brothers). In this paper, we report the findings of a preliminary evaluation study (n = 12) conducted over 1 week. The initial results showed that the children found the game engaging and improved their knowledge of healthy diet and lifestyle.
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International Association for Development of the Information Society. Conference (13th : 2017 : Budapest, Hungary)Series
International Association for Development of the Information Society ConferencePagination
49 - 55Publisher
IADIS PressLocation
Budapest, HungaryPlace of publication
[Budapest, Hungary]Start date
2017-04-10End date
2017-04-12ISBN-13
9789898533616Language
engPublication classification
E1.1 Full written paper - refereedCopyright notice
2017, IADIS PressEditor/Contributor(s)
Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez, Pedro IsaíasTitle of proceedings
ML 2017 : Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Mobile Learning 2017Usage metrics
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