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Asthma-nauts: Apps Using Gameplay to Collect Health Metrics and Educate Kids About Asthma

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In this paper, we propose the designs for two apps that benefit pediatric patients with asthma. We discuss the current state of the field through results from a survey of published apps related to asthma. We observed several key gaps that were unfilled and use these results to derive a set of requirements for a new app design. We describe two different designs that meet these requirements. The apps are designed to collect health metrics and educate kids aged 7 - 12 years through gameplay in two different contexts, at home and in hospital Emergency Departments (ED).

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  • (2023)eHealth Technologies for Monitoring Pediatric Asthma at Home: Scoping ReviewJournal of Medical Internet Research10.2196/4589625(e45896)Online publication date: 21-Jul-2023

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CSCW '19 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2019 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
November 2019
562 pages
ISBN:9781450366922
DOI:10.1145/3311957
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  1. apps
  2. asthma
  3. augmented reality
  4. design
  5. education
  6. lung function data
  7. mhealth
  8. mobile application
  9. pediatric asthma
  10. ubiquitous computing

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