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Obesity is becoming a global epidemic. Obesity education, especially childhood obesity education, has become an issue for the public health community agenda in a lot of countries. In this paper we will report on an interactive educational toy we designed and prototyped for obesity education. We propose design refinements and marketing strategies to make the toy available to educate children more widely and effectively.
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Blevis, S., Bardzell, J., Wroblewski, N. (2007). Feed the Dragon Wisely: Designing for Childhood Awareness as a Means of Lifelong Obesity Prevention. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services. UAHCI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4556. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73283-9_93
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