Using the Behaviour Change Wheel Program Planning Model to Design Games for Health: Development Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Games for health are a promising approach to health promotion. Their success depends on achieving both experiential (game) and instrumental (health) objectives. There is little to guide game for health (G4H) designers in integrating the science of behavior change with the art of game design.

Objective

The aim of this study is to extend the Behaviour Change Wheel program planning model to develop Challenges for Healthy Aging: Leveraging Limits for Engaging Networked Game-Based Exercise (CHALLENGE), a G4H centered on increasing physical activity in insufficiently active older women.

Methods

We present and apply the G4H Mechanics, Experiences, and Change (MECHA) process, which supplements the Behaviour Change Wheel program planning model. The additional steps

SUBMITTER: Robertson MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8686484 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature