A novel cooperative game for reinforcing obesity awareness amongst children in UAE

Fatema Alnaqbi, Sarah Alzahmi, Ayesha Alharmoozi, Fatema Alshehhi, Muhammad Talha Zia, Sofia Ouhbi, Abdelkader Nasreddine Belkacem

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Abstract

This paper presents a funny cooperative game that makes kids interact with their parents to indirectly educate both of them about the importance of making their own choices of eating unhealthy and healthy food. The game-based learning and cultivation of an informed decision-making approach throughout our proposed game design was utilized to achieve the obesity awareness objectives. This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of our proposed cooperative game “ObeseGo” that was developed to enhance the obesity awareness for kids at an early age and educate them regarding their choices concerning eating a balanced meal to be able to adopt a healthy lifestyle. A survey questionnaire was conducted to evaluate our game. The results of the survey allowed us to analyze the impact and usefulness of the proposed game and to plan for improvement in future work.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHuman Centred Intelligent Systems - Proceedings of KES-HCIS 2020 Conference
EditorsAlfred Zimmermann, Robert J. Howlett, Lakhmi C. Jain
PublisherSpringer
Pages53-63
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9789811557835
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
EventInternational KES Conference on Human Centred Intelligent Systems, KES-HCIS 2020 - Split, Croatia
Duration: Jun 17 2020Jun 19 2020

Publication series

NameSmart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
Volume189
ISSN (Print)2190-3018
ISSN (Electronic)2190-3026

Conference

ConferenceInternational KES Conference on Human Centred Intelligent Systems, KES-HCIS 2020
Country/TerritoryCroatia
CitySplit
Period6/17/206/19/20

Keywords

  • 3D game
  • Awareness
  • Cooperative game
  • Obesity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Decision Sciences(all)
  • Computer Science(all)

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