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Supporting Learning Activities with Wearable Devices to Develop Life-Long Skills in a Health Education App

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80% of Australian children do not engage in recommended minima of physical activity levels, contributing to an alarming trend in obesity levels and associated diseases in adult life. We created iEngage, an innovative health education program for 10–12 year old school children that blends a learning app, wearable technology, feedback, goal setting and gamification with practical activities to promote knowledge and behavioural changes with regards to physical activity and to guide children at their own pace towards World Health Organisation’s recommended minima of daily moderate to vigorous physical activity. We present how the activity trackers are used to provide objective feedback and support the learning activities and the individual goal setting. We conducted a controlled pilot study in two Australian schools. Post-tests using research-grade accelerometer devices reveal a significant increase in moderate and vigorous activities in the experimental group, compared to none in the control group.

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Acknowledgements

This work was funded by Diabetes Australia Research Trust. We thank colleagues and Bepatient for their various contributions in this experiment.

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  1. The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Kalina Yacef & Corinne Caillaud

  2. The University of New Caledonia, Nouméa, New Caledonia, France

    Olivier Galy

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Correspondence to Kalina Yacef .

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Carolyn Penstein Rosé

  2. University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Roberto Martínez-Maldonado

  3. University of Duisburg-Essen , Duisburg, Germany

    H. Ulrich Hoppe

  4. UCL Institute of Education, London, UK

    Rose Luckin

  5. UCL Institute of Education, London, UK

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  6. UCL Institute of Education, London, UK

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  7. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Bruce McLaren

  8. University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

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Yacef, K., Caillaud, C., Galy, O. (2018). Supporting Learning Activities with Wearable Devices to Develop Life-Long Skills in a Health Education App. In: Penstein Rosé, C., et al. Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10948. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93846-2_74

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