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This research aims to provide further insight on how to design effective educational games by exploring whether the integration of educational content through game mechanics, text, or a combination of both text and game mechanics is more effective in ...

Public Health in the European Union is mainly a formal competence of the Member States. EU Treaties and Regulations have given EU gradually more mandate in past decades on issues of surveillance, epidemic intelligence, early warning and cross-border ...

The panel will address the potential benefits and challenges in applying digital technologies to humanitarian scenarios.

Key themes are (1) empowering the individual (or the beneficiary) and informal care-givers with knowledge tools to participate in ...

With the increase in availability and affordability of digital technology, there has been a proliferation of pilot projects demonstrating the potential and opportunities of digital health interventions to improve public health outcomes. According to a ...

This survey study considers the state of the art of participatory research approaches using serious games to improve public health. It provides perspectives on existing research and future directions.

Recife is one of many regions in the North Eastern section of Brazil to be hit hard by the Zika virus outbreak in 2015. Zika infection is caused by the arboviruses transmitted by the Aedes mosquitoes which are abundant in Brazil. It is a known fact that ...

Geographical maps showing the abundance of the Aedes species (\textitA. Aegypti andA. Albopictus ) in Latin America plays a crucial role in the fight against the Zika Virus (ZIKV). They aid in the identification of sites that promotes mosquito breeding ...

GADSA (Gamified Antimicrobial Stewardship Decision Support App) is a decision support tool to improve evidence-based prescribing, designed to be used at the point-of-care to help clinicians comply with guidelines in their everyday practice. The app ...

Warm welcome to the 9th International Conference on Digital Public Health (www.acmdigitalhealth. org). This year, the DPH committee agreed to rebrand the conference 'Digital Public Health' more accurately represents the focus of the event on public ...

The devastating consequences of neonates infected with the Zika virus makes it necessary to fight and stop the spread of this virus and its vectors (Aedes mosquitoes). An essential part of the fight against mosquitoes is the use of mobile technology to ...

Edugames4all MicrobeQuest! is a mobile game that aims to teach microbiology and create awareness about important healthcare issues among 9 to 12 years old. This article presents the game, discusses the game design and integration of the learning ...

In the graphic design of serious games, player engagement is an important consideration. We propose a new approach towards aiding the graphic designer to consider the major factors relevant to player engagement. This article describes a method for ...

Warm welcome to the 8th International Conference on Digital Health (www.acm-digitalhealth.org), supported by UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction and The Web Conference 2018, held in-cooperation with ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge ...

Vaccine hesitancy, traditionally linked to issues of trust, misinformation and prior beliefs, has been increasingly fuelled by influential groups on social media (SM) and the Internet. Analysis of news media and social networks (SN) accessible in real-...

Welcome to the 7th International Conference on Digital Health (www.acm-digitalhealth.org), supported by UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction and held in-cooperation with ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) ...

Digital health has revolutionised healthcare, with implications for understanding public reactions to health emergencies and interventions, while real-time analysis provides a new opportunity for rapidly detecting changes in public confidence in ...

Increasing mobile device ownership among children makes them an attractive platform for raising awareness about health issues. At the same time, children are using mobile devices for playing games and therefore these games could be used to facilitate ...

Welcome to the 6th International Conference on Digital Health (www.acm-digitalhealth.org), held in conjunction with the 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016) and incooperation with ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (...

In this paper we present an Interactive Digital Storytelling IDS formalisation that captures the IDS logic constraints. This was implemented in a game engine and an authoring tool was created to facilitate the development of IDS based games. We created ...