Evaluating Game Preference using the Fun Toolkit across Cultures

Sim, Gavin; Horton, Matthew; Danino, Nicky

doi:10.14236/ewic/hci2012.56

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“…The rationale for using it before is that it can measure their expectations and for using it afterward is that it is assumed that the child is reporting experienced fun. It has been widely adopted in testing technologies with children to measure satisfaction and fun as it requires no writing [48][49][50][51][52]. After allocation to a preparatory program, children were asked how good they thought the preparation would be by pointing to the Smilyometer Likert Scale to indicate their expectation of using the intervention.…”

Section: Child Satisfaction and Funmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparing a Virtual Reality–Based Simulation App (VR-MRI) With a Standard Preparatory Manual and Child Life Program for Improving Success and Reducing Anxiety During Pediatric Medical Imaging: Randomized Clinical Trial (Preprint)

Stunden¹,

Stratton²,

Zakani³

et al. 2020

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BACKGROUND Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging is anxiety-provoking, particularly for pediatric patients and their families. Anxiety and non-compliance (ie, movement during imaging) are often managed with sedation; however, the psychological, physiological, and health systems impacts related to sedation have necessitated alternative methods to improve success with non-sedated MR imaging. OBJECTIVE To compare the effectiveness of virtual reality to a preparatory book and Child Life program for reducing motion and anxiety during pediatric MR imaging. METHODS A non-blinded, randomized clinical trial with three arms, including virtual reality (VR), the hospital’s preparation book (BLK), and the hospital’s Child Life Program (CLP), was conducted among children aged 4-to-13 years. Participants progressed through preparing for a head scan with their allocated preparation program, then completing the head scan in the hospital’s MRI simulator room. The primary outcomes were a success during the MR simulator and situational anxiety. Data were collected via REDCap at baseline, after preparing, and after the simulated scan. We secondarily administered measures of caregiver anxiety, usability, and satisfaction with the preparation programs. RESULTS A total of 84 participants were recruited and enrolled in the study (VR n=30, BLK n=24, CLP n=30). No significant differences were found between the groups on success in the MR simulation assessment (X2 = 2.642, p = 0.267, df = 2). Children preparing with the book exhibited trends of higher anxiety between preparation and the assessment than children preparing with VR (x ̅ =1.12, 95% CI = 0.01 to 2.25, p = 0.053). The caregivers in the BLK arm also reported being significantly more anxious than the caregivers in the VR group before the assessment (x ̅ = 5.33, 95% CI = 3.24 to 7.43, p < 0.001) and CLP group (x ̅ = 3.73, 95% CI = 1.64 to 5.83, p < 0.001). Caregiver anxiety in the BLK group continued after the assessment was over and remained higher than the VR group (x ̅ =1.84, 95% CI = 0.25 to 3.43, p = 0.019). In terms of satisfaction with the preparatory materials, children reported more satisfaction in the CLP group compared to the BLK group (x ̅ = 17.51, 95% CI = 0.07 to 34.95, p = 0.049), whereas, caregivers preparing with VR or CLP reported the most satisfaction (x ̅ = 4.51, 95% CI = 2.32 to 6.70, p < 0.001; x ̅ = 4.07, 95% CI = 1.86 to 6.28, p < 0.001, respectively). In all groups, the children reported feeling that the actual experiences with the preparation materials matched their expectations [F(2,81) = 1.014, p = 0.367]. CONCLUSIONS Virtual reality preparation could be a viable alternative to sedation when utilized to improve process compliance and effectiveness of pediatric medical imaging. Future research should focus on testing with pediatric patients in clinical care settings. CLINICALTRIAL U.S. National Library of Medicine (#NCT03931382)

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Section: Child Satisfaction and Funmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparing a Virtual Reality–Based Simulation App (VR-MRI) With a Standard Preparatory Manual and Child Life Program for Improving Success and Reducing Anxiety During Pediatric Medical Imaging: Randomized Clinical Trial (Preprint)

Stunden¹,

Stratton²,

Zakani³

et al. 2020

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“…There is evidence to suggest that people from Western and Asian cultures may use different cultural theories to construct and reconstruct their life experiences [37]. Thus culture is an important consideration in the design of technology for a global population and there has been research by the HCI community into cultural aspects of design [38] and evaluation [39].…”

Section: Designing For Other Culturesmentioning

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Child-Generated Personas to Aid Design Across Cultures

Sim

Shrivastava

Horton

et al. 2019

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019

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Designers frequently use personas to model potential users, but these personas need to be accurate portrayals of people. With personas needed to facilitate a cross-cultural participatory design project, it was recognized that the personas needed to not only describe children appropriately, but also capture differences in behaviours between cultures. 56 children aged 7-10 in the UK and India participated in the creation of personas of elementary school children, describing aspects such as school life, family life and technology use. A tool developed to evaluate personas demonstrated that both sets of children could individually create plausible personas, while content analysis of the personas demonstrated that children focused on behavioural and activity-based narratives that were similar between the two groups, with only limited cultural differences identified. The findings suggest that child-generated personas can be a viable method in the design process, and may offer insights that aid cross-cultural design.

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