Introducing a new design tool to inform serious game behaviour change interventions

Karen Shanks; Romana Ramzan; Karen Thomson; David Farrell

doi:10.34190/GBL.20.050

Introducing a new design tool to inform serious game behaviour change interventions

Karen Shanks^*, Romana Ramzan, Karen Thomson, David Farrell

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Abstract

Poor health behaviours established in adolescence can have lasting consequences in later life, such as obesity and sedentary behaviour. Interventions aimed at changing health behaviour typically have poor results. Serious video games have the potential to offer an intervention grounded in a fun and engaging world. Currently, there is no standard design tool used to help guide developers through the process of designing a serious video game to provoke healthy behaviour change. This paper will review behaviour change techniques (BCTs), discuss game design tools and why there is no current standard and will introduce a card-based design tool that was developed as a result of this analysis. This PhD project has implications for both serious game developers and behavioural psychologists as the design tool will allow stakeholders in game design and behavioural psychology to communicate more effectively in order to realise game-based health interventions. The outcome will be an alternative way to visualise and map behavioural theories in the early-stage development of serious games for healthy behaviour change.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Game Based Learning, ECGBL 2020
Editors	Panagiotis Fotaris
Pages	739-748
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781912764716
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.34190/GBL.20.050
Publication status	Published - 24 Sep 2020

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning
Volume	2020September
ISSN (Print)	2049-0992

Keywords

Behaviour change game
Behaviour change game tool
Behaviour change techniques
Behavioural psychology
Serious game development tool
Serious games for health

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Computer Networks and Communications
Human-Computer Interaction
Software
Control and Systems Engineering
Education

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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© 2020 Academic Conferences International Limited. This is the accepted author manuscript of the paper: Shanks, K, Ramzan, R, Thomson, K & Farrell, D 2020, Introducing a new design tool to inform serious game behaviour change interventions, in Proceedings of 14th European Conference on Game Based Learning, European Conference on Games Based Learning, Academic Conferences International Limited, 14th European Conference on Game-Based Learning, Brighton, United Kingdom, 24/09/20. The final published version of the paper is available at: https://doi.org/10.34190/GBL.20.050
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Lifelab Plus: a trial of an intervention to improve diet, physical fitness and well-being in adolescence.
Homatash, H.
Health Technology Assessment, National Institute for Health Research
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Shanks, K., Ramzan, R., Thomson, K., & Farrell, D. (2020). Introducing a new design tool to inform serious game behaviour change interventions. In P. Fotaris (Ed.), Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Game Based Learning, ECGBL 2020 (pp. 739-748). (Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning; Vol. 2020September). https://doi.org/10.34190/GBL.20.050

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Introducing a new design tool to inform serious game behaviour change interventions

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