Exploring the effectiveness of persuasive games for disease prevention and awareness and the impact of tailoring to the stages of change

Mulchandani, Dinesh; Alslaity, Alaa; Orji, Rita

doi:10.1080/07370024.2022.2057858

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“…Also, Mitchell et al (2021), a digital health game was developed and it was found that the health knowledge of the undergraduate students who played the game increased. Mulchandani et al (2022), in a study with university students, shows that the educational digital health game increases their awareness of diseases and also persuades them to be more conscious about taking precautions.…”

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Digital advances in health education with fun health games for children

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Topsakal

2023

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Health education is a life-long process for every individual and improves the health and quality of life of the society and it is important to benefit from interactive digital learning environments in providing health education for the digital children of the new age. The aim of the study is to develop educational digital health games and to investigate the role of primary school students in health awareness. Accordingly, in this study, various educational digital health games were designed, developed and evaluated in many health areas, healthy daily life, dental health, hygiene/cleaning, diseases and coronavirus disease. The study is a design-based research and the ASSURE model, one of the design-based research types, was used in the study. The sample of the study consists of 12 primary school 4th grade students. In the study, semi-structured interview was used as data collection tool and content analysis was applied in the analysis. As a result of the study, it was found that educational digital health games improved the health awareness of primary school students and the students gave more and various correct answers after the implementation than before the implementation. Accordingly, educational digital health games can be used in health education for children.

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Digital advances in health education with fun health games for children

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Topsakal

2023

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“…Since the introduction of persuasive technologies in the early 2020s (Fogg, 2002), the majority of persuasive technologies have typically treated all users in a similar manner without taking into account users' differences Tran, 2020b, 2021;Mulchandani et al, 2022). However, some research indicates that the effectiveness of PTs can vary among different users.…”

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“…Games that are designed for purposes other than entertainment are commonly known as serious games (Altmeyer et al, 2021). Various studies argue that there is a growing interest in games promoting positive behavior change and that persuasive games (games that deploy persuasive technologies) have been exploited to tremendous effect with applications in various domains (Ghorbani and Semiyari, 2022;Mulchandani et al, 2022). As such, persuasive technologies have become an essential component of the modern game designer's toolkit when designing solutions to motivate behavior change.…”

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“…User-related factors are characteristics that are specific to individuals. These factors can vary from person to person and can include demographics, stages of change (Mulchandani et al, 2022), personality traits (Alslaity and Tran, 2020a;Ghorbani and Semiyari, 2022), cognitive ability, gamer types (Tondello et al, 2016), and culture. It is worth mentioning that culture is a broad concept that includes an individual's behaviors, ethics, beliefs, norms, and habits., etc.…”

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A panoramic view of personalization based on individual differences in persuasive and behavior change interventions

Alslaity,

Chan,

Orji

2023

Front. Artif. Intell.

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Persuasive technologies are designed to change human behavior or attitude using various persuasive strategies. Recent years have witnessed increasing evidence of the need to personalize and adapt persuasive interventions to various users and contextual factors because a persuasive strategy that works for one individual may rather demotivate others. As a result, several research studies have been conducted to investigate how to effectively personalize persuasive technologies. As research in this direction is gaining increasing attention, it becomes essential to conduct a systematic review to provide an overview of the current trends, challenges, approaches used for developing personalized persuasive technologies, and opportunities for future research in the area. To fill this need, we investigate approaches to personalize persuasive interventions by understanding user-related factors considered when personalizing persuasive technologies. Particularly, we conducted a systematic review of 72 research published in the last ten years in personalized and adaptive persuasive systems. The reviewed papers were evaluated based on different aspects, including metadata (e.g., year of publication and venue), technology, personalization dimension, personalization approaches, target outcome, individual differences, theories and scales, and evaluation approaches. Our results show (1) increased attention toward personalizing persuasive interventions, (2) personality trait is the most popular dimension of individual differences considered by existing research when tailoring their persuasive and behavior change systems, (3) students are among the most commonly targeted audience, and (4) education, health, and physical activity are the most considered domains in the surveyed papers. Based on our results, the paper provides insights and prospective future research directions.

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“…Indicates beliefs about behaviour. It refers to individuals' favourable or unfavourable evaluation with respect to performing the behaviour of interest The TPB has shown validity in several health-related contexts, including physical activity, healthy eating, safe sexual behaviour, and exercise [68][69][70]. For instance, Orji et al [2] measured change in attitude, intention, and self-efficacy in their evaluation of a persuasive game to determine the behaviour change towards healthy eating among participants.…”

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Socially-Oriented Persuasive Game to Promote Disease Awareness and Prevention

Mulchandani

Orji

2022

Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies

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Persuasive games are widely implemented in the health domain to promote desirable behaviour change. Previous research shows that using persuasive games employing various strategies results in increased motivation and awareness that led to a positive change in behaviour. This paper investigates the efficacy of a competition-based persuasive game at creating awareness and motivating people to adhere to COVID-19 precautionary measures. To achieve this goal, we developed and evaluated a competition-based persuasive game to promote the awareness and adoption of COVID-19 precautionary measures. The results of our pretest and posttest study ( N = 67 ) followed by a semistructured interview of 18 participants show the efficacy of the game with respect to promoting a positive change in attitude, intention, self-efficacy, knowledge, and promoting motivation and positive player experience among participants. The qualitative results provide insight into how and why persuasive games promote desirable behaviour. The paper contributes to the knowledge of how emerging technologies in the form of persuasive games can be designed and used to contribute to solving problems in our society.

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Exploring the effectiveness of persuasive games for disease prevention and awareness and the impact of tailoring to the stages of change

Cited by 11 publications

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Digital advances in health education with fun health games for children

Digital advances in health education with fun health games for children

A panoramic view of personalization based on individual differences in persuasive and behavior change interventions

Socially-Oriented Persuasive Game to Promote Disease Awareness and Prevention

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