TY - GEN
T1 - Mobile technologies for promoting health and wellness among African American youth
AU - Hill, Donovan
AU - Blunt, Jasmine
AU - Pugh, Terrence
AU - Monk, Monika
AU - Kim, Ji Sun
AU - Winchester, Woodrow W.
AU - McCrickard, D. Scott
AU - Estabrooks, Paul
AU - Doswell, Felicia
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This paper describes an effort to address life-threatening diseases and health conditions through engaging use of mobile devices. The design targeted children ages 7-11, with a goal of becoming aware of the nutritional value of foods that they eat on a regular basis. The implementation efforts resulted in Health Attack, a matching and memory game that seeks to raise the knowledge-level of participants about the foods that they eat. The evaluation of Health Attack, conducted through a demo and questionnaire administered to K-12 teachers, suggests that this type of game would be engaging for younger audiences as a first step in raising health awareness.
AB - This paper describes an effort to address life-threatening diseases and health conditions through engaging use of mobile devices. The design targeted children ages 7-11, with a goal of becoming aware of the nutritional value of foods that they eat on a regular basis. The implementation efforts resulted in Health Attack, a matching and memory game that seeks to raise the knowledge-level of participants about the foods that they eat. The evaluation of Health Attack, conducted through a demo and questionnaire administered to K-12 teachers, suggests that this type of game would be engaging for younger audiences as a first step in raising health awareness.
KW - evaluation
KW - games
KW - mobile computing
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-21666-4_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-21666-4_5
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79960326521
SN - 9783642216657
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 36
EP - 45
BT - Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction
T2 - 6th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011
Y2 - 9 July 2011 through 14 July 2011
ER -