TY  - JOUR
AU  - Balli, Fabio
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018/11/21
TI  - Developing Digital Games to Address Airway Clearance Therapy in Children With Cystic Fibrosis: Participatory Design Process
JO  - JMIR Serious Games
SP  - e18
VL  - 6
IS  - 4
KW  - digital games
KW  - children
KW  - cystic fibrosis
KW  - game design
KW  - treatment adherence and compliance
KW  - intersectoral collaboration
KW  - access to information
KW  - recommendations
KW  - telemedicine
KW  - mobile phone
AB  - Background: Children affected with cystic fibrosis do respiratory exercises to release the mucus stuck in their lungs. Objective: The objective of our study was to develop prototypes of digital games that use breath pressure to make this daily physiotherapy more fun. Methods: We used a participatory design approach and organized short events to invite contributors from different disciplines to develop game prototypes. From the 6 prototypes, 3 were tested by 10 children during a prestudy. The source code of the games, of which 2 continue to be developed, has been released on the internet under fair use licenses. Results: We discuss 7 themes of importance in designing games for health, combining our experience with a review a posteriori of literature. Conclusions: This study provides examples of games and their pitfalls as well as recommendations to create games for health in a participatory approach that enables everyone to improve and adapt the work done. 
SN  - 2291-9279
UR  - http://games.jmir.org/2018/4/e18/
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2196/games.8964
UR  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30463835
DO  - 10.2196/games.8964
ID  - info:doi/10.2196/games.8964
ER  -