Mobile Game-Based Methodology for Science Learning

Sánchez, Jaime; Salinas, Álvaro; Sáenz, Mauricio

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-73111-5_37

Cited by 28 publications

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“…Schools are a recommended venue for obesity prevention programs [23], but school restrictions on child mobile phone use in school settings limit intervention delivery. However, restrictions may be lifted as mobile technology increasingly becomes incorporated into educational curricula [58]. Children, as minors, are more vulnerable than adults and may have different privacy concerns.…”

Section: Development and Implementation With Children And Familiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

mHealth approaches to child obesity prevention: successes, unique challenges, and next directions

Tate

Spruijt‐Metz

O’Reilly

et al. 2013

Behav. Med. Pract. Policy Res.

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Childhood obesity continues to be a significant public health issue. mHealth systems offer state-of-the-art approaches to intervention design, delivery, and diffusion of treatment and prevention efforts. Benefits include cost effectiveness, potential for real-time data collection, feedback capability, minimized participant burden, relevance to multiple types of populations, and increased dissemination capability. However, these advantages are coupled with unique challenges. This commentary discusses challenges with using mHealth strategies for child obesity prevention, such as lack of scientific evidence base describing effectiveness of commercially available applications; relatively slower speed of technology development in academic research settings as compared with industry; data security, and patient privacy; potentially adverse consequences of increased sedentary screen time, and decreased focused attention due to technology use. Implications for researchers include development of more nuanced measures of screen time and other technology-related activities, and partnering with industry for developing healthier technologies. Implications for health practitioners include monitoring, assessing, and providing feedback to child obesity program designers about users' data transfer issues, perceived security and privacy, sedentary behavior, focused attention, and maintenance of behavior change. Implications for policy makers include regulation of claims and quality of apps (especially those aimed at children), supporting standardized data encryption and secure open architecture, and resources for research-industry partnerships that improve the look and feel of technology. Partnerships between academia and industry may promote solutions, as discussed in this commentary. KEYWORDSChildhood, Obesity, Mobile technology, mHealth, Screen time, Focused attention, Sedentary behavior Childhood obesity continues to be a significant public health issue, increasing children's risk for elevated blood pressure and lipid concentrations, musculoskeletal pain, depression, anxiety, bullying, and later heart disease, asthma, and diabetes in adulthood [1][2][3]. Poor diet, lack of exercise, food marketing, a built environment that promotes sedentary forms of transport and leisure, lack of sleep, and television sets in children's bedrooms are some of the multiple sources contributing to children's obesogenic environment [4,5]. Behavior-based interventions are essential for prevention and treatment [6]. Many forms of behavioral obesity interventions have been tested in the past such as school, community, family, and physician based, which have shown moderate success [7][8][9]. Electronic media offers opportunities to extend current approaches and to develop new ones [8,10]. POTENTAIL SUCCESS OF MHEALTH APPROACHESElectronic mobile technologies (e.g., smartphones, iPod touch, tablets, wireless sensors, etc.) that can be employed in mobile health (mHealth) surveil-

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Section: Development and Implementation With Children And Familiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

mHealth approaches to child obesity prevention: successes, unique challenges, and next directions

Tate

Spruijt‐Metz

O’Reilly

et al. 2013

Behav. Med. Pract. Policy Res.

162

141

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“…In recent years, heuristic evaluation has been used in a variety of projects, including development of a "seamless" system for video on demand [15] and several academic projects around the world (e.g., [30] and [43]). …”

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“…Other recent applications of the cognitive walkthrough include the development of a multimodal tourist guide to Paris [1], an opensource, Web-based digital library for the management and dissemination of social science research data [17], and a PDA-based game for teaching science [43].…”

Section: Cognitive Walkthroughmentioning

confidence: 99%

Usability inspection methods after 15 years of research and practice

Hollingsed

Novick

2007

Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

129

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Usability inspection methods, such as heuristic evaluation, the cognitive walkthrough, formal usability inspections, and the pluralistic usability walkthrough, were introduced fifteen years ago. Since then, these methods, analyses of their comparative effectiveness, and their use have evolved in different ways. In this paper, we track the fortunes of the methods and analyses, looking at which led to use and to further research, and which led to relative methodological dead ends. Heuristic evaluation and the cognitive walkthrough appear to be the most actively used and researched techniques. The pluralistic walkthrough remains a recognized technique, although not the subject of significant further study. Formal usability inspections appear to have been incorporated into other techniques or largely abandoned in practice. We conclude with lessons for practitioners and suggestions for future research.

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“…Mobile Game-Based Science Learning [23] describes a pedagogical methodology based on interactive games for mobile devices (PDAs). The methodology is oriented to developing problem-solving skills in science classes for 8th graders, by including pre-classroom activities with the teacher, classroom activities, and a central activity using an interactive game for a mobile device.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experiences from implementing a face-to-face educational game for iPhone/iPod Touch

Wang

Bakken

2010

2010 2nd International IEEE Consumer Electronics Society's Games Innovations Conference

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Abstract-This paper presents a location-aware educational game for the iPhone/iPod Touch platform. The game, KnowledgeWar, is a quiz game where students can challenge each other in face-toface or remote knowledge battles. The game contains a game lobby where players can see all who are connected, and the physical distance to them. The paper describes our experiences from developing KnowledgeWar and results from a user test followed by a questionnaire. The user test focused on usability, and how well the game was suited for learning. The results showed among other things that the game had high usability, it is helpful for summarizing topics, it can stimulate involvement and social interaction, and that smartphones are well suited for such games. The results also revealed that our game did not to stimulate students to attend more lectures or pay more attention during lectures.

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Mobile Game-Based Methodology for Science Learning

Cited by 28 publications

References 8 publications

mHealth approaches to child obesity prevention: successes, unique challenges, and next directions

mHealth approaches to child obesity prevention: successes, unique challenges, and next directions

Usability inspection methods after 15 years of research and practice

Experiences from implementing a face-to-face educational game for iPhone/iPod Touch

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