Research Article
Serious Games to Teach Nutrition Education to Children Between 9 to 12 Years Old. Pickit! and Cookit!
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-49655-9_19, author={Alejandro Dominguez-Rodriguez and Elia Oliver and Ausias Cebolla and Sussanna Albertini and Louis Ferrini and Ana Gonzalez-Segura and Enrique Cruz and Karin Kronika and Tomas Nilsen and Cristina Botella and Rosa Ba\`{o}os}, title={Serious Games to Teach Nutrition Education to Children Between 9 to 12 Years Old. Pickit! and Cookit!}, proceedings={eHealth 360°. International Summit on eHealth, Budapest, Hungary, June 14-16, 2016, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={EHEALTH360}, year={2017}, month={1}, keywords={Nutritional education Serious game ICT platform Children}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-49655-9_19} }- Alejandro Dominguez-Rodriguez
Elia Oliver
Ausias Cebolla
Sussanna Albertini
Louis Ferrini
Ana Gonzalez-Segura
Enrique Cruz
Karin Kronika
Tomas Nilsen
Cristina Botella
Rosa Baños
Year: 2017
Serious Games to Teach Nutrition Education to Children Between 9 to 12 Years Old. Pickit! and Cookit!
EHEALTH360
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49655-9_19
Abstract
The current trend of increase in children obesity is worrying governments around the world and urgent actions are requested. The promotion of Nutrition Education in early stages has shown to be a factor to prevent the gain of weight in children. A tool that is gaining popularity in teaching contents to children are the Serious Games. The objective of this paper is to describe two Serious Games, Pickit! and Cookit! that has as objective to teach Nutrition Education to children between 9 to 12 years old. These games form part of the Modifying Eating and Attitudes through Learning platform, a pedagogical tool created for nutritionists and primary school teachers to transfer nutritional knowledge to children. These games contain relevant elements in the design of Serious Games as are avatars, levels and a system of points. It is expected that trough these games the children will increase their nutritional education knowledge.
