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Mobile Technologies for Promoting Health and Wellness among African American Youth

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This paper describes an effort to address life-threatening diseases and health conditions through engaging use of mobile devices. The design targeted children ages 7-11, with a goal of becoming aware of the nutritional value of foods that they eat on a regular basis. The implementation efforts resulted in Health Attack, a matching and memory game that seeks to raise the knowledge-level of participants about the foods that they eat. The evaluation of Health Attack, conducted through a demo and questionnaire administered to K-12 teachers, suggests that this type of game would be engaging for younger audiences as a first step in raising health awareness.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Norfolk State University, 700 Park Avenue, Norfolk, VA, 23504, United States

    Donovan Hill, Jasmine Blunt, Terrence Pugh, Monika Monk & Felicia Doswell

  2. Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2202 Kraft Drive, Blacksburg, VA, 24060, United States

    Ji-Sun Kim & D. Scott McCrickard

  3. Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, 250 Durham Hall, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, United States

    Woodrow W. Winchester III

  4. Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise, Virginia Tech, 338 Wallace Hall, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, United States

    Paul Estabrooks

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  1. Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Institute of Computer Science, N. Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton, 70013, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    Constantine Stephanidis

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Hill, D.et al. (2011). Mobile Technologies for Promoting Health and Wellness among African American Youth. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Context Diversity. UAHCI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6767. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21666-4_5

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