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Pirate Bri's Grocery Adventure: Teaching Food Literacy through Shopping

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Marcela C. C. Bomfim,

James R. WallaceAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '18: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Paper No.: LBW068, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188496

Published: 20 April 2018 Publication History

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Food Literacy (FL) is associated with the improvement of autonomy and confidence around food, healthier dietary intake, and chronic disease prevention. However, to date, behaviour change research at CHI has focused on motivating healthy eating mainly through weight loss and calorie control, which can lead to poor nutritional choices as consumers optimize caloric intake over a balanced diet. To address this gap, we designed a mobile game called Pirate Bri's Grocery Adventure, that seeks to improve FL through a situated learning approach to grocery shopping. Our game leverages Self Determination Theory (SDT) to build a player's competence, autonomy, and relatedness as shoppers are encouraged to develop an understanding of the nutritional benefits of foods and are rewarded for balancing sugar, sodium, fats and fibre in their purchases.

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CHI EA '18: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2018

3155 pages

ISBN:9781450356213

DOI:10.1145/3170427

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Regan Mandryk
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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University of Waterloo, Canada
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Brunel University London, UK
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University College London, UK

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April 21 - 26, 2018

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