A Digital Games Design for Children Health Promotion and Education in Hong Kong

P. Y. Lee; K. W. Lau

doi:10.1145/3234825.3234826

A Digital Games Design for Children Health Promotion and Education in Hong Kong

P. Y. Lee
, K. W. Lau

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

4 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Children health promotion and education relies currently on school promotion and mass media. With the increasing popularity of youngsters' digital game playing phenomenon, a growing possibility of utilizing educational games (Serious Games) for health promotion and education has become promising. Prior research have anticipated that serious games can be a powerful channel that can benefit the young generation, not only for entertainment, but also for communicating health values to change their behaviors in reality. This project investigated the communication design and effects of serious games for promoting and educating health concept with children. Two studies were conducted in this research. In Study 1, the research team investigated how public health message was assimilated into serious games, which affect the health behaviors of children. In Study 2, the team investigated the effects of the serious games on children through a between-group experiment. A 'pre-test/post-test control group' experiment with 180 primary school children in Hong Kong (aged 9 to 12) was conducted. The findings has showed the use of serious games is promising in deliver health promotion and education to children. The result also contribute to academic, professional and educational values for serious game design, health promotion and education.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICIEI 2018 - Proceedings of 2018 the 3rd International Conference on Information and Education Innovations
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1-5
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450364409
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3234825.3234826
Publication status	Published - 30 Jun 2018
Event	3rd International Conference on Information and Education Innovations, ICIEI 2018 - London, United Kingdom Duration: 30 Jun 2018 → 2 Jul 2018

Publication series

Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference	3rd International Conference on Information and Education Innovations, ICIEI 2018
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	30/06/18 → 2/07/18

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

Communication Design
Digital Games Design
Health Promotion and Education
Serious Games

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications

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Lee, PY & Lau, KW 2018, A Digital Games Design for Children Health Promotion and Education in Hong Kong. in ICIEI 2018 - Proceedings of 2018 the 3rd International Conference on Information and Education Innovations. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1-5, 3rd International Conference on Information and Education Innovations, ICIEI 2018, London, United Kingdom, 30/06/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3234825.3234826

A Digital Games Design for Children Health Promotion and Education in Hong Kong. / Lee, P. Y.; Lau, K. W.
ICIEI 2018 - Proceedings of 2018 the 3rd International Conference on Information and Education Innovations. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. p. 1-5 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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