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Lunch in Balance: Designing for Healthy Eating Behaviour and Teacher Support in Dutch Primary Schools
Lukassen, C.M.A. (2025) Lunch in Balance: Designing for Healthy Eating Behaviour and Teacher Support in Dutch Primary Schools.
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| Abstract: | The implementation of communal lunches in schools plays a crucial role in shaping children's eating behaviours and promoting healthier lifestyles. This research aims to investigate how the organisation of the communal lunch in Dutch primary schools with a continuous schedule can be improved to promote healthy eating behaviours among children while also fostering a more feasible and pleasant experience for teachers. The key needs and opportunities for intervention are identified using teacher surveys, expert interviews, literature research, and analysing existing work. A layered design framework was developed to guide the ideation and creation of an intervention. Based on this, an intervention was designed that includes an interactive device with physical character figures that, when placed on the device, trigger an audio-based storytelling experience guiding children through lunch with healthy eating behaviour cues and activities. A complementary web application displayed on the Digibord can provide visual support for children and assists teachers with supervision. The preliminary evaluation findings indicated that the concept shows the potential to improve lunch break in primary schools. However, further development and future research is needed to assess long-term integration in the classroom and its effects on healthy eating behaviour. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | EEMCS: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science |
| Subject: | 50 technical science in general, 81 education, teaching |
| Programme: | Interaction Technology MSc (60030) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/106632 |
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