This treasure hunting game was developed to detect eye problems in children. While playing, children wear blue and red colored lenses that monitor eye movement in order to pinpoint any possible vision issues such as retinal disorders, stigmatisms, and refractive errors. This game is intended to make vision-testing fun for kids.
News and reflexions about change for good
August 8, 2013
EyeSpy video game software to perform vision screening in school-aged children
This treasure hunting game was developed to detect eye problems in children. While playing, children wear blue and red colored lenses that monitor eye movement in order to pinpoint any possible vision issues such as retinal disorders, stigmatisms, and refractive errors. This game is intended to make vision-testing fun for kids.
August 7, 2013
A video Game about Energy Demand Management
The Energy Planner Game is designed to educate people on different power generation technologies in an entertaining way.
It allows the player to take custody of a virtual city’s power plan and seek a balance between the most efficient technologies currently available and the most environmentally friendly ones. Players must also take into account the varying costs of production of the different technologies and face the challenge of maintaining an economically viable mix of all of these elements.
August 6, 2013
Data Dealer, a game about data privacy
In Data Dealer players face a very different challenge: their goal is to collect personal information about millions of people - and then ruthlessly sell it to clients of all kinds. Data Dealer is an online game about collecting, combining and selling personal data – and therefore a playful exploration of online privacy issues. The game is targeted at both young people and adults. Data Dealer is a nominee for the NYC-based Games for Change Awards 2013 - the leading international event about games with a social impact. The English version has been released in May 2013.August 5, 2013
Quandary: Online game that engages students in ethical decision-making and develops skills that help them recognize ethical issue
Quandary, a free game for players aged 8-14, presents engaging situations about how to build a new colony on the planet Braxos.
In Quandary, players must make difficult decisions in which there are no clear right or wrong answers but important consequences – to themselves, to others in the colony and to the planet Braxos. In their interactions with other settlers in the colony, players must consider facts, opinions and solutions, just like in real life.
MyRoutine app, to reduce kids’ doctor visit anxiety
Visiting the doctor might be a daunting experience for kids who aren’t yet used to the process, especially those with a developmental delay.To address this concern, the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee created an iPad app, My Routine, to show children what a doctor’s office visit generally looks like as well as other daily routines.
Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness
Does happiness lie in feeling good, as hedonists think, or in doing and being good, as Aristotle and his intellectual descendants, the virtue ethicists, think?From the evidence of a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), it seems that feeling good is not enough. People need meaning to thrive. In the words of Carl Jung, “The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.” Jung’s wisdom certainly seems to apply to our bodies, if not also to our hearts and our minds.
August 3, 2013
Research Reveals Ways to Help Patients with Autism Improve Social Skills
Advances in treatments for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) will be the focus of several presentations at the American Psychological Association’s 121st Annual Convention. About 1 in 50 school-age children in the United States has some form of autism, according to the National Institutes of Mental Health. Leading experts in the diagnoses and treatment of autism will present research findings that include new ways to identify ASD, new approaches for teaching social skills, and how mobile technology can help autistic children communicate.August 1, 2013
El Ministerio de Sanidad y ATRESMEDIA se unen contra la obesidad infantil
La Ministra de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad, Ana Mato, y el Consejero Delegado de ATRESMEDIA, Silvio González, han firmado un convenio de colaboración que tiene como objetivo desarrollar acciones de sensibilización y concienciación en materia de prevención de la obesidad infantil. Este convenio tendrá como marco de actuación EL ESTIRÓN, la iniciativa de Responsabilidad Corporativa de ATRESMEDIA que nació en mayo de 2011.¿Niños mal educados?
Para promocionar una nueva gama de productos Kids Pack Menu, los supermercados Subways realizaron una campaña denominada“The Kid Shopping Experiment”, consistente en encargar la compra a los niños mientras los padres podían verlo a través de una videocámara. Los resultados fueron esperados, los niños llenaron los carros de comida basura, muchos azúcares, helado…
Una acción para demostrar a los padres lo mal educados que están sus hijos a la hora de la alimentación.
Pedalear para ganarse el Bollycao
Que los niños tengan que pedalear para conseguir zumos, batidos, snacks o dulces, una nueva forma de buscar solución a un viejo problema, la obesidad infantil. Ese es el mecanismo de la máquina dispensadora que se ha presentado hoy en el Museo de las Ideas de Barcelona.
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