Wind Runners: Designing a Game to Encourage Medical Adherence for Children with Asthma

Shawn Nikkila; Gaurav Patel; Hari Sundaram; Aisling Kelliher; Ashutosh Sabharwal

doi:10.1145/2212776.2223811

Wind Runners: Designing a Game to Encourage Medical Adherence for Children with Asthma

Shawn Nikkila, Gaurav Patel, Hari Sundaram, Aisling Kelliher, Ashutosh Sabharwal

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Abstract

In this paper, we present Wind Runners, which is a game designed for children with asthma. The goal of Wind Runners is to increase the likelihood of asthmatic children adhering to the NIH's recommendation of measuring their peak expiratory flow (PEF) on a daily basis. We aim to accomplish this by incorporating both social gaming features and the actual medical regimen of measuring PEF into a mobile game.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	2411-2416
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2212776.2223811
State	Published - 2012
Event	30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012 - Austin, TX, United States Duration: May 5 2012 → May 10 2012

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Conference	30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin, TX
Period	5/5/12 → 5/10/12

Keywords

asthma
compliance
game design
health games
social games

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Software

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