Learning Daily Calorie Intake Standard using a Mobile Game
Anik Das, Sumaiya Amin, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Md. Sabir Hossain,, Mohammad Mainul Islam
TL;DR
This paper presents FoodCalorie, a mobile game designed to teach users about traditional Bangladeshi food calorie values and intake standards, demonstrating that game-based learning enhances understanding of nutritional information.
Contribution
The paper introduces a novel educational mobile game focused on calorie standards and traditional foods, with evaluation confirming its effectiveness in learning enhancement.
Findings
Game-based learning improves understanding of calorie intake standards.
FoodCalorie effectively teaches calorie values of traditional Bangladeshi foods.
The study confirms the educational benefits of mobile games in nutrition learning.
Abstract
Mobile games can contribute to learning at greater success. In this paper, we have developed and evaluated a novel educational game, named FoodCalorie, to learn the food calorie intake standards. Our game is aimed to learn the calorie values of various traditional Bangladeshi foods and the calorie intake standard that varies with age and gender. Our study confirms the finding of existing studies that game-based learning can enhance the learning experience.
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Taxonomy
TopicsICT in Developing Communities · Educational Games and Gamification · Mobile Learning in Education