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This paper presents a funny cooperative game that makes kids interact with their parents to indirectly educate both of them about the importance of making their own choices of eating unhealthy and healthy food. The game-based learning and cultivation of an informed decision-making approach throughout our proposed game design was utilized to achieve the obesity awareness objectives. This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of our proposed cooperative game “ObeseGo” that was developed to enhance the obesity awareness for kids at an early age and educate them regarding their choices concerning eating a balanced meal to be able to adopt a healthy lifestyle. A survey questionnaire was conducted to evaluate our game. The results of the survey allowed us to analyze the impact and usefulness of the proposed game and to plan for improvement in future work.
Part of this study was funded by the United Arab Emirates University (SURE Plus grant G00003173).
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We would like to thank Dr. Maroua Belghali for bringing the obesity issue in UAE to our attention.
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Alnaqbi, F. et al. (2021). A Novel Cooperative Game for Reinforcing Obesity Awareness Amongst Children in UAE. In: Zimmermann, A., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Human Centred Intelligent Systems. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 189. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5784-2_5
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