Feed the dragon wisely: designing for childhood awareness as a means of lifelong obesity prevention

Authors:
Shunying Blevis;Jeffrey Bardzell;Nancy Wroblewski
Affiliations:
School of Informatics, Indiana University Bloomington, IN;School of Informatics, Indiana University Bloomington, IN;Monroe county YMCA, Bloomington, IN
Venue:
UAHCI'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Universal access in human-computer interaction: applications and services
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Obesity is becoming a global epidemic. Obesity education, especially childhood obesity education, has become an issue for the public health community agenda in a lot of countries. In this paper we will report on an interactive educational toy we designed and prototyped for obesity education. We propose design refinements and marketing strategies to make the toy available to educate children more widely and effectively.