Engaging children in diabetes education through mobile games
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Baghaei, Nilufar
Casey, John
Nandigam, David
Sarrafzadeh, Hossein
Maddison, R.
Casey, John
Nandigam, David
Sarrafzadeh, Hossein
Maddison, R.
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2017-04
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Conference Contribution - Paper in Published Proceedings
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diabetes education
diabetic children
game design
Mario Brothers (Mobile game)
evaluation
computer games
mLearning
mobile games
diabetic children
game design
Mario Brothers (Mobile game)
evaluation
computer games
mLearning
mobile games
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Baghaei, N., Casey, J., Nandigam, D., Sarrafzadeh, A., & Maddison, R. (2017, April). Engaging Children in Diabetes Education through Mobile Games. P. Isaías (Ed.), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Mobile Learning (ML), Budapest, Hungary
Abstract
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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