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Increasing Children’s Physical Activity Outdoors with Interactive Buttons through Co-Design

Gommers, Michelle (2024) Increasing Children’s Physical Activity Outdoors with Interactive Buttons through Co-Design.

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Abstract:Despite the importance of outdoor physical activity for a child’s motor, physical, cognitive, and social development, there has been a decline in the amount of time children spend playing outside. Recent research has shown the potential of using technology to motivate outdoor movement in children. This project explores an approach of six co-design sessions with children aged 4 to 12 to investigate the use of interactive buttons in supporting movement-inducing play. In the first three sessions, the project goals were introduced, the interactive buttons were explored, and a mixing ideas technique was executed, resulting in 33 concepts for potential games. These sessions revealed many innovative design ideas, including Pet Store, Lego and Animal Gathering games, each featuring different methods of employing the technology and motivating physical activity. In the fourth session, the top six ideas were selected and further specified in the fifth session. The final two games, “Pizza Game” and “Escape Game”, were realised, whereafter an evaluation took place in the final co-design session. This thesis presents the pitfalls and outcomes of the co-design process, the added value of the interactive buttons, and the insights gained from designing outdoor movement-inducing games for children.
Item Type:Essay (Bachelor)
Faculty:EEMCS: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Subject:01 general works, 02 science and culture in general
Programme:Creative Technology BSc (50447)
Link to this item:https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/103390
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