The Etiobe Mates: a serious game platform to improve the learning of nutritional knowledge in children
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CIBER de Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN) Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain
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Universidad de Valencia, Spain
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Universidad Jaume , Spain
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I3BH Innovation &Research Institute on Bioengineering for Humans-Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Nutritional knowledge is a fundamental component in the prevention and treatment of obesity. To have suitable knowledge about this topic is not only useful for an appropriate food selection, but also for changing irrational ideas or mites about food. The use of new technologies in the childhood obesity treatment can be useful to facilitate preventing tasks and increasing treatment adherence, according to user characteristics “The ETIOBE Mates” is an educative platform game designed for improving nutritional knowledge in overweight children; it is composed by three serious games. A serious game is a term used to refer to a software application developed with informatics technology and game design principles used for educational, persuasive or health purposes. The objective of this paper is to present the platform, and results of research in playability and acceptability of The Healthydiet Plate game.
Conference:
Annual CyberTherapy and CyberPsychology 2009 conference, Villa Caramora, Italy, 21 Jun - 23 Jun, 2009.
Presentation Type:
Oral Presentation
Topic:
Oral Presentations
Citation:
Baños
R,
Cebolla
A,
Frías
A,
Etchemendy
E,
Botella
C,
Palacios
G and
Alcañiz
M
(2009). The Etiobe Mates: a serious game platform to improve the learning of nutritional knowledge in children.
Front. Neuroeng.
Conference Abstract:
Annual CyberTherapy and CyberPsychology 2009 conference.
doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.14.2009.06.007
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Received:
18 Mar 2009;
Published Online:
18 Mar 2009.
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Correspondence:
Rosa Baños, CIBER de Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN) Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain, banos@uv.es