Easy Breathing—Definition of a Gamification System to Support the Chronic Care of Childhood Asthma - Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering

JBiSE > Vol.9 No.10, September 2016

Easy Breathing—Definition of a Gamification System to Support the Chronic Care of Childhood Asthma ()

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DOI: 10.4236/jbise.2016.910B016 1,481 Downloads 2,536 Views Citations

Author(s)

Ruofei Hu^1,2, Jorge Cancela¹, Giuseppe Fico¹, Cecilia Vera-Muñoz¹, Wenbin Sheng³, Maria Teresa Arredondo¹

Affiliation(s)

¹Lifestyle Supporting Technologies Group, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
²R & D Department, Easy-Benefit Science and Technology Ltd., Hangzhou, China.
³Pediatrics Department, Hangzhou First People’s Hospital, Hangzhou, China.

ABSTRACT

Asthma is the most common noncommunicable disease among children. It leads to substantial problems both in health and economic terms to individuals and families. This paper introduces a technological solution, Easy Breathing, that supports the man-agement of childhood asthma, providing tools for both doctors and patients. Through the establishment of an asthma chronic care model, it combines doctors’ professional guidance and a gamification system to improve the compliance of patients with their treatments and to provide them with tools for the self-management of their disease. The system is in the testing phase, the first mockup has been developed and validated with 270 medical experts and patients, and it will be tested with 540 end-users over the next months.

KEYWORDS

Childhood Asthma, Gamification, Serious Games, Chronic Care-Model

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Hu, R. , Cancela, J. , Fico, G. , Vera-Muñoz, C. , Sheng, W. and Arredondo, M. (2016) Easy Breathing—Definition of a Gamification System to Support the Chronic Care of Childhood Asthma. Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering, 9, 122-128. doi: 10.4236/jbise.2016.910B016.

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