Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Serious Games
Date Submitted: Sep 14, 2017
Open Peer Review Period: Sep 16, 2017 - Jul 17, 2018
Date Accepted: Jul 17, 2018
(closed for review but you can still tweet)
Developing Digital Games to Address Airway Clearance Therapy in Children With Cystic Fibrosis: Participatory Design Process
ABSTRACT
Background:
Children affected with cystic fibrosis do respiratory exercises to release the mucus stuck in their lungs.
Objective:
The objective of our study was to develop prototypes of digital games that use breath pressure to make this daily physiotherapy more fun.
Methods:
We used a participatory design approach and organized short events to invite contributors from different disciplines to develop game prototypes. From the 6 prototypes, 3 were tested by 10 children during a prestudy. The source code of the games, of which 2 continue to be developed, has been released on the internet under fair use licenses.
Results:
We discuss 7 themes of importance in designing games for health, combining our experience with a review a posteriori of literature.
Conclusions:
This study provides examples of games and their pitfalls as well as recommendations to create games for health in a participatory approach that enables everyone to improve and adapt the work done.
Citation
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