ShopRight : A Game-Based Approach for Motivating Healthy Shopping Habits

Unhealthy eating habits has been identified as one of the major causes of obesity and weight gain in people. When consumers shop for unhealthy foods, they will likely eat unhealthy foods, thus it is imperative to encourage healthy shopping habits among people. To contribute to ongoing research in influencing healthy shopping habits, we present the prototype of ShopRight , a game that encourages healthy shopping habits in consumers. In ShopRight , points are awarded when players “shop” for healthy foods presented to them and “destroy” the unhealthy options as quickly as possible. The aim of the game is to influence shoppers to quickly and easily identify and differentiate between healthy and unhealthy foods when shopping.

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Ifeoma Adaji

Kiemute Oyibo

Julita Vassileva

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Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 1-5

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[0001]University of Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan, Canada

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.74

SO-VID: f7c761b7-6974-4f42-a458-91cdf101708b

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 32

Conference location: Belfast, UK

Conference date: 4 - 6 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction Conference

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[1] T. NavaneelanT. Janz “Adjusting the scales: Obesity in the Canadian population after correcting for respondent bias,” Statistics Canada Catalogue, Health at a Glance 82–624–X

[2] S. BischoffY. BoirieT. Cederholm “Towards a multidisciplinary approach to understand and manage obesity and related diseases,” Clinical Nutrition 36 4 917 938 2017

[3] R. OrjiL. E. NackeC. Di Marco “Towards Personality-driven Persuasive Health Games and Gamified Systems,” in Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI ’17 2017 1015 1027

[4] A. GrimesV. KantrooR. Grinter “Let’s play!: mobile health games for adults,” Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Ubiquitous computing 2010 241 250

[5] J. PollakG. GayS. ByrneE. Wagner “It’s time to eat! Using mobile games to promote healthy eating,” IEEE Journal on Pervasive Computing 9 3 21 27 2010

[6] R. OrjiJ. VassilevaR. Mandryk “LunchTime: a slow-casual game for long-term dietary behavior change,” Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 2013

[7] R. D. Duke “A Paradigm for Game Design,” Simulation & Games 11 3 364 377 Sep. 1980

[8] A. ElliotM. MaierA. MollerR. Friedman “Color and psychological functioning: The effect of red on performance attainment,” Journal of experimental psychology: General 136 1 154 2007

[9] S. LichtenfeldA. ElliotM. Maier “Fertile green: Green facilitates creative performance,” Personality and Social Psychology 38 6 784 797 2012

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ShopRight: A Game-Based Approach for Motivating Healthy Shopping Habits