Grocery Hunter: A fun mobile game for children to combat obesity

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction, TEI'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 317-320

  Kim, Hyungsin ^a   Kogan, Anya ^c   Dasgupta, Chandan ^d   Novitzky, Michael Misha ^a   Do, Ellen Yi Luen ^a,b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HUGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Health communications; Interactive design; Just in time learning; Mobile devices for children

Indexed keywords

CHILDHOOD OBESITY; EATING HABITS; FOOD NUTRITION; GROCERY STORES; HANDHELDS; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; INTERACTIVE DESIGN; INTERACTIVE GAMES; JUST-IN-TIME LEARNING; MOBILE GAMES; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POCKET-PC;

DESIGN; MOBILE DEVICES; NUTRITION; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT;

EDUCATION;

EID: 79952319759     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1935701.1935775     Document Type: Conference Paper

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