A master thesis from Aalborg University
Breathe Out - A Breath-Based Game Supporting Prerequisites for Learning about Asthma
Term
4. Term
Publication year
2022
Submitted on
2022-06-02
Pages
13 pages
Abstract
The lack of understanding from peers to a child with asthma, often affects the child negatively. Children with asthma often feel frustrated with their medicine and excluded from their peers. In the field of human-computer interaction, many studies focus on mobile applications for monitoring and reporting asthma data for the asthma patient. Other studies focus on teaching children with asthma about their disease. Few to none studies focus on supporting the inclusion of children with asthma. In this paper, we present Breathe Out, a breath-based interactive game that supports learning about asthma through prerequisites gained from ‘The Five Characteristics of Learning Through Play’ model. We have evaluated Breathe Out with 47 children, where 17% of the children have asthma. We found that Breathe Out taught both children with and without asthma, about the disease. Our study highlights the potential of technology facilitating a conversation about asthma, which could potentially make the children with asthma feel more included among their peers.
Keywords
Documents
Colophon: This page is part of the AAU Student Projects portal, which is run by Aalborg University. Here, you can find and download publicly available bachelor's theses and master's projects from across the university dating from 2008 onwards. Student projects from before 2008 are available in printed form at Aalborg University Library.
If you have any questions about AAU Student Projects or the research registration, dissemination and analysis at Aalborg University, please feel free to contact the VBN team. You can also find more information in the AAU Student Projects FAQs.