A Smart Mirror to Encourage Independent Hand Washing for Children

Rabben, Nils-Christian W.; Mikkelsplass, Stine Aurora

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-74009-2_57

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“…This is usually done using posters, leaflets, games, and videos [9,10,13], see also: [5]. While such approaches have shown effective in raising awareness and in improving handwashing practice, they are less effective in persuading and motivating children; they are difficult to implement in school settings especially with primary school children; and often require supervision by adults (teachers or teaching assistants) [38]. The HCIcommunity has taken a rising interest in exploring more technical, interactive and persuasive solutions to promote hand hygiene (among children) -each taking their own unique approach, for example: [4,6,13,30,32].…”

Section: Raising Awarenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recently, there is a rising interest for exploring more interactive and persuasive solutions that can motivate children to wash their hands. Three systems are of particular interest to the current case: WallBo [12,13,46]; smart mirror [38]; and Germ Destroyer [1]. We will briefly introduce each of these systems and discuss the pros and cons of each for aiding handwashing procedures in elementary school children.…”

Section: Interactive Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rabben and Mikkelsplass [38] explored the use of smart mirrors to encourage children to wash their hands independently (without requiring the supervision of adults -teachers and teaching assistants). They proposed to use smart mirrors to convey handwashing instructions and feedback about handwashing progress in a way that more appealing to young children (from grade one to four).…”

Section: Interactive Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Towards motivating young children, WashWall uses gamification as a persuasive technique (cf. [38]). Gamification is defined as "the use of game design elements in non-game contexts" [15] to motivate and increase user activity and engagement.…”

Section: Washwall Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Finally, it is difficult to implement hand hygiene interventions in school settings, especially with primary school children [18,29,41]. For example, since the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, kindergarten and school teachers and their assistants spend a lot of time helping and supervising handwashing [38]. Therefore, there is a need for developing creative approaches that can steer or nudge children to wash their hands regularly.…”

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WashWall: An Interactive Smart Mirror for Motivating Handwashing Among Primary School Children

Postma,

Ranasinghe,

Constantinou

et al. 2023

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Hand hygiene became one of the key measures to prevent COVID-19 infection and the spread of the virus. This, however, is challenging with young children (e.g., primary school). Primary school teachers spend a lot of time supervising and helping children to wash their hands and making sure they wash their hands regularly and correctly. Educating children of the need for handwashing and training them to wash hands for 20 s alone does not motivate young children enough to wash their hands without supervision. We developed WashWall, an interactive smart mirror that uses gamification to motivate young children to wash their hands in an engaging way. We deployed WashWall in a primary school and conducted a user study (N = 14) to evaluate its practicality, effectiveness, and user experience. Results show that children engaged in the activity for a significantly longer duration, enjoyed playing WashWall, and learned the game easily and fast.

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