SheHealthy: A Serious Game Approach towards Evicting PCOS amongst Adolescent Girls

Proceedings of the 7th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Pub Date : 2015-12-17 DOI:10.1145/2835966.2836283

Shobhit Gupta, Meenal Mandil, Samadrita Das, Suwardhan Ahirrao, K. Sorathia

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ICT interventions are proved as some of the effective means of driving changes in rural areas socially, as it ensures equal access for less privileged groups. This time ICT is used for management of a disease called PCOS. PCOS is a disease that occurs in girls. It is rapidly gaining considerable proportions and needs an effective method for its mitigation. We conducted study aimed to understand the level of awareness and concern, young adolescent girls have towards their body and observed their interactions with the social environment in this regard. This paper describes their common behavioral pattern based on the qualitative user study conducted among fifteen people including twelve adolescent girls, two doctors (gynecologists) and one Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) member. This paper further proposes 'SheHealthy', a serious game aimed to generate awareness and educate young adolescent girls among all strata of society towards healthy living and precautions to evict possibilities of encountering PCOS in future.

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她健康:一个严肃的游戏方法，以排除多囊症在青春期的女孩

事实证明，信息通信技术干预措施是推动农村地区社会变革的一些有效手段，因为它确保了弱势群体的平等机会。这一次，ICT被用于管理一种叫做多囊卵巢综合征的疾病。多囊卵巢综合征是一种发生在女孩身上的疾病。它正在迅速增加相当大的比例，需要一种有效的缓解方法。我们进行了一项研究，旨在了解青春期少女对自己身体的意识和关注程度，并观察她们在这方面与社会环境的互动。本文通过对包括12名少女、2名医生(妇科医生)和1名认可的社会健康活动家(ASHA)成员在内的15人进行定性用户研究，描述了他们共同的行为模式。本文进一步提出了“SheHealthy”，这是一个严肃的游戏，旨在提高社会各阶层年轻少女对健康生活的认识和教育，并预防未来遇到多囊卵巢综合征的可能性。

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