[AG-TECH] Interactive Video Games that Improve Young People's Health Behaviors

[Jonathan C. Humfrey]

It would be great to have some remote participants attend our first Center 
for Information Technology and Society (www.cits.ucsb.edu) Brown Bag 
Symposium of the new school year.  The presentation will go from 12 noon 
to 1 PM PDT on Friday October 11th.  

Please reply if you would like to attend.

Please join us next Friday October 11th for the first CITS Brown Bag
Lecture of 2002-03.

Debra Lieberman, Department of Communication and ISBER will give a talk
titled:

"Creating Interactive Video Games that Improve Young People's Health
Behaviors: Putting Theory into Practice"

Video games have the potential to influence knowledge, skills, and
behavior, for better or worse depending on the goals of the creators. In
this talk, UCSB communication researcher Debra Lieberman will focus on
entertainment video games that are designed to improve young people's
self-care behaviors and health.  She will present the theory-based
design she developed for a series of health video games for children and
adolescents, and will present an overview of research testing the theory
and demonstrating that the video games are fun and effective.  Debra
designed the video games to enhance players' self-concepts,
self-efficacy for specific health behaviors, communication with others
about health, social support, knowledge, and rehearsal of self-care
skills, all of which are factors known to affect health behaviors and
outcomes.

Location: The Collaborative Technologies Laboratory (CTL) formerly known
as the Digital Classroom - Trailer 932, directly East of Davidson
Library.  For a map and description see
http://www.cits.ucsb.edu/site/classroom.html)

Date/Time: October 11, 2002 at Noon

All are welcome. Feel free to bring your lunch.

The talk and audience comments will be broadcast live through the
Internet-based Access Grid, and will also be available later in
streaming form at the CITS web site http://www.cits.ucsb.edu.

This talk is part of the CITS Friday Brown Bag Symposia on Information
Technology and Society, for the complete 2002-03 Brown Bag schedule
visit: http://www.cits.ucsb.edu/site/events.html

Please feel free to pass this message on to anyone you feel may be
interested. 

_________________________________________________
 
Rob Patton
Program Manager
Center for Information Technology and Society
University of California, Santa Barbara
www.cits.ucsb.edu
patton at cits.ucsb.edu
805-893-5910
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