ChillFish: A Respiration Game for Children with ADHD

Tobias Sonne; Mads Møller Jensen

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ChillFish: A Respiration Game for Children with ADHD

Tobias Sonne, Mads Møller Jensen

Department of Computer Science

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Breathing exercises can help children with ADHD control their stress level, but it can be hard for a child to sustain attention throughout such an exercise. In this paper, we present ChillFish, a breath-controlled biofeedback game designed in collaboration with ADHD professionals to investigate the possibilities of combining breathing exercises and game design. Based on a pilot study with 16 adults, we found that playing ChillFish had a positive effect, helping the participants to reach a relaxed state similar to the one offered by traditional breathing exercises. Further, we analyze the opportunities and challenges of creating a tangible respiration-based controller and use it as a core game mechanic. Finally, we discuss the challenge of balancing engagement and relaxation in physically controlled games for children with ADHD in order to make a game that can be calming and still sustain their attention.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	TEI 2016 - Proceedings of the 10th Anniversary Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction : Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
Number of pages	8
Place of publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2016
Pages	271-278
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-3582-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2839462.2839480
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	The Tenth ACM International conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2016) - Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands Duration: 14 Feb 2016 → 17 Feb 2016 http://www.tei-conf.org/16/

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Conference	The Tenth ACM International conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2016)
Location	Eindhoven University of Technology
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Eindhoven
Period	14/02/2016 → 17/02/2016
Internet address	http://www.tei-conf.org/16/

Keywords

ADHD
Games for health
biofeedback
children with ADHD
respiration
serious games
stress

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Sonne, T & Jensen, MM 2016, ChillFish: A Respiration Game for Children with ADHD. in TEI 2016 - Proceedings of the 10th Anniversary Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp. 271-278, The Tenth ACM International conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2016), Eindhoven, Netherlands, 14/02/2016. https://doi.org/10.1145/2839462.2839480

ChillFish: A Respiration Game for Children with ADHD. / Sonne, Tobias; Jensen, Mads Møller.
TEI 2016 - Proceedings of the 10th Anniversary Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. p. 271-278.

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