Simulation for Environmental Exposure Education (S3E): A Serious Game Platform for Environmental Health Literacy

环境暴露教育模拟（S3E）：环境健康素养的严肃游戏平台

基本信息

批准号：
10524491
负责人：
Neil Edward Klepeis
金额：
$ 25.91万
依托单位：
DFUSION, INC.
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-06-27 至 2023-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10524491
关键词：
14 year old Active Learning Address Adult Air Architecture Area Asthma Attitude Awareness Breathing Carbon Monoxide Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Cessation of life Chemicals Child Child Health Communication Communities Community Actions Complex Coughing Data Disadvantaged Disease Dizziness Economically Deprived Population Education Educational Curriculum Elements Engineering Environment Environmental Exposure Environmental Health Environmental Impact Environmental Pollution Environmental Risk Factor Exposure to Family Fantasy Feedback Focus Groups Goals Group Interviews Health Health Sciences Home Home environment Housing Human body Inflammation Injury Intervention Knowledge Lead Lead Poisoning Learning Malignant Neoplasms Mediating Modeling Molds Monitor Nausea Next Generation Science Standards Outcome Persons Phase Physical environment Pilot Projects Play Population Predisposition Process Public Health Radon Randomized Clinical Trials Reaction Reading Research Resources Risk Risk Factors Scanning School-Age Population Schools Self Efficacy Series Smoke Social Environment Soil Source Students Surface Teacher Professional Development Testing Time Toxic Environmental Substances Unconscious State Universities Water Youth acute symptom aged base burden of illness climate change cost design digital educational atmosphere effectiveness evaluation experience falls game development handheld mobile device health care availability health knowledge health literacy household environmental exposure improved informal learning interest junior high school learning materials low socioeconomic status minority children novel nutrition pet animal phase 1 testing pilot test pollutant programs prototype randomized controlled study recruit response scaffold school district sensor simulation simulation game skills teacher thirdhand smoke usability virtual

项目摘要

ABSTRACT: Simulation for Environmental Exposure Education (S3E) Studies have documented cumulative health effects of chemical and nonchemical exposures on children that can impact them for a lifetime. In-home environmental exposure risks are particularly impactful on health because children spend 80-90% of their time indoors, and impact disproportionately falls on disadvantaged youth. These environmental exposures have been shown to increase inflammation, asthma, lead poisoning, cancer and a host of other conditions. In addition, just a subset of these environmentally mediated diseases in US children is estimated to cost $76.6 billion per year. To provide the knowledge and skills to address these challenges and to inspire awareness and action, young people need to develop their environmental health literacy. This project proposes to do that through the design and pilot testing of a mobile serious game, S3E, to improve environmental health literacy among middle-school age youth by scaffolding learning and communication about toxic environmental exposures occurring at home. The game will be built using a 2.5D platformer-style architecture with a simulation of socio-physical dynamics. Players will: 1) Design the physical and social environments of their own simulated world, including everything from using 360 degree scans from their own home to designing their ultimate fantasy space; 2) Add, remove, and modify objects that impact environmental exposure; 3) Move, interact, communicate, and take action in a virtual experience to avoid environmental exposure and sickness, injury, or death. As the player moves throughout the game, they will have access to data about the environment. The game will have embedded real-time displays that inform students of simulated sensor readings for contaminant levels in air, water, soil, surfaces, and bodies of humans and pets. Increasing adverse health in response to these contaminants is represented by animated acute symptoms in players and non-player characters (family, pets, etc.), such as dizziness, nausea, coughing, difficulty breathing, or unconsciousness. In the process of playing the game, students will discover personalized solutions to reduce exposure (opening a window, removing a heater, etc.) and build models and mechanisms of environmental exposure. The content will be aligned with Environmental Health Literacy and Science and Engineering practice in the Next Generation Science Standards to facilitate integration of the game into formal educational settings. In Phase I of the project, we will conduct formative research with youth aged 11-13, including focus groups, interviews, and recruiting a diverse panel to co-design the game, develop a portion of the game using two exposure risks–secondhand/thirdhand smoke and carbon monoxide poisoning–and play test and pilot test the game to evaluate usability, playability, and impact on knowledge and intentions around environmental risk in the home. Phase II will complete game development with the addition of more features and more exposure risks and conduct a randomized clinical trial to assess the impact of the game on environmental health literacy and action.

摘要：环境暴露教育模拟 (S3E) 研究记录了化学和非化学接触对儿童的累积健康影响，可能会影响他们一生家庭环境暴露风险对健康影响尤其大。因为儿童 80-90% 的时间都在室内度过，而影响不成比例地落在弱势群体身上这些环境暴露已被证明会增加炎症、哮喘、铅中毒、此外，癌症和许多其他疾病只是这些环境介导的疾病的一部分。据估计，美国儿童每年需要花费 766 亿美元来提供解决这些问题的知识和技能。挑战并激发人们的认识和行动，年轻人需要发展他们的环境健康该项目建议通过一款移动严肃游戏 S3E 的设计和试点测试来实现这一目标。通过支架式学习提高中学生的环境健康素养关于在家中发生的有毒环境暴露的交流该游戏将使用 2.5D 构建。具有社会物理动力学模拟的平台游戏式架构玩家将： 1) 设计物理。以及他们自己的模拟世界的社交环境，包括使用 360 度扫描的一切他们自己的家来设计他们的终极幻想空间；2）添加、删除和修改影响的对象； 3）在虚拟体验中移动、互动、交流并采取行动，以避免当玩家在游戏中移动时，他们会遭受环境暴露和疾病、伤害或死亡。访问有关环境的数据。该游戏将嵌入实时显示器，告知学生以下信息。模拟传感器读数，了解空气、水、土壤、表面以及人类和宠物身体中的污染物水平。对这些污染物的反应增加了对健康的不利影响，表现为急性症状玩家和非玩家角色（家人、宠物等），例如头晕、恶心、咳嗽、呼吸困难、在玩游戏的过程中，学生会发现个性化的解决方案来减少。暴露（打开窗户、移除加热器等）并建立环境模型和机制内容将与环境健康素养和科学与工程实践保持一致。纳入下一代科学标准，以促进游戏融入正规教育环境。在该项目的第一阶段，我们将对11-13岁的青少年进行形成性研究，包括焦点小组、采访，并招募一个多元化的小组来共同设计游戏，使用两个开发游戏的一部分暴露风险——二手/三手烟和一氧化碳中毒——以及游戏测试和试点测试评估可用性、可玩性以及对环境风险知识和意图的影响的游戏第二阶段将完成游戏开发，增加更多功能和更多暴露风险和进行随机临床试验，以评估游戏对环境健康素养和行动的影响。