Citation:
Aloba, A., Flores, G., Langham, J., McFadden, Z., Bell, J., Dagar, N., Esmaeili, S., and Anthony, L. 2020. Toward Exploratory Design with Stakeholders for Understanding Exergame Design. In Extended Abstracts of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ‘2020). Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, USA, April 25-20, Pages 1–8. [PDF]
Abstract:
“Prior work has explored improving the efficacy of exergames but they typically work with children. Children are not necessarily well suited for making informed decisions about their fitness, so their perspectives only form half of the picture. Adults who are invested in the problem of children’s fitness (e.g., PE teachers) are a valuable missing perspective. As a first step to understanding what we can learn from these stakeholders to aid the design of exergames, we conducted one in-depth interview with a PE teacher and several focus groups with children. Our findings showed that although both children and the PE teacher consider similar elements, children viewed the elements through the lens of fun while the PE teacher viewed the elements through the lens of effectiveness. Our preliminary findings establish the importance of including such stakeholders who can make informed decisions about children’s fitness in the formative design of exergames. “