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Engaging children in diabetes education through mobile games

conference contribution
posted on 2017-01-01, 00:00 authored by N Baghaei, J Casey, D Nandigam, A Sarrafzadeh, Ralph MaddisonRalph Maddison
Traditional 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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Pagination

49-55

Location

Budapest, Hungary

Start date

2017-04-10

End date

2017-04-12

ISBN-13

9789898533616

Language

eng

Publication classification

E1.1 Full written paper - refereed

Copyright notice

2017, IADIS Press

Editor/Contributor(s)

Arnedillo Sánchez I, Isaías P

Title of proceedings

ML 2017 : Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Mobile Learning 2017

Event

International Association for Development of the Information Society. Conference (13th : 2017 : Budapest, Hungary)

Publisher

IADIS Press

Place of publication

[Budapest, Hungary]

Series

International Association for Development of the Information Society Conference

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