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

[Leslie Arvin]

Sounds interesting.  What timezone is UCSB, and what venue will
Access Grid use for this event?

-- Leslie Arvin
   arvin at purdue.edu
   Programmer
   Purdue University Access Grid

Jonathan C. Humfrey wrote:

>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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