Radon Awareness Health Initiative (RAHI): A Serious Game about Serious Risk

氡意识健康倡议 (RAHI)：一场关于严重风险的严肃游戏

• 批准号: 9409955
• 负责人: Michael S Brewster
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: TRIAD INTERACTIVE MEDIA, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9409955
• 关键词: Adopted; Adult; Advocate; Alien; American; Attitude; Awareness; Cancer Etiology; Cessation of life; Child; Collaborations; Collection; Communities; Country; Decision Making; Development; E-learning; Education; Educational Curriculum; Ensure; Evaluation; Exposure to; Family; Future; Goals; Health; Health education; Home environment; Individual; Joints; Knowledge; Lead; Learning; Malignant neoplasm of lung; Middle School Student; Neighborhoods; North Dakota; Online Systems; Parents; Phase; Radon; Research; Research Design; Resources; Rest; Risk; Ships; Side; Site; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Students; Testing; Triad Acrylic Resin; Universities; Work; base; design; digital; improved; instructor; junior high school; killings; learning materials; novel; outreach; programs; remediation; school health; seventh grade; teacher; usability; web portal

PROJECT SUMMARY Each year, over 21,000 Americans die from lung cancer caused by exposure to radon in their homes. These deaths are preventable through awareness, testing, and remediation, yet hundreds of educational programs have over the last 50 have not had any appreciable impact. This project will overcome the critical barrier to promoting awareness, testing, and remediation of radon by adopting a novel and unique approach that relies on a “push” strategy via mandated health education classes rather than on traditional “pull” strategies where people must choose to seek out radon awareness education. By targeting young children rather than adults, our solution may also lead to lifelong knowledge and attitudes about radon testing and remediation that will make future homeowners more likely to test and remediate. Students in our approach will develop knowledge and abilities that allow them to serve as change agents for their own homes by advocating for testing and remediation. ​A joint team from Triad Interactive Media, Inc., and the University of North Dakota will design and develop a digital game that engages learners and provides essential information about radon. Radon Awareness Health Initiative: A Serious Game About Serious R​ isk (RAHI), will target middle school students in mandatory school health education classes. It will be a standalone program that teachers can use with and integrate into their existing curriculum. Phase I of the project will concentrate on designing and developing the first level of a serious game and a Web portal with a suite of supplementary educational resources for teachers and parents. These materials will help to ensure effective classroom integration and parent–student collaboration at home, since it is ultimately parents who will make the decisions about testing and remediation of radon in homes. In the game, students will help a group of aliens, the Rahi, whose ship has crashed nearby and who need help to reach their extraction site on the other side of the neighborhood. The Rahi are extremely sensitive to radon—even a few seconds of exposure at levels above 4 ppm can kill them. The Rahi educate students about radon and, in turn, those students help them chart a path through the neighborhood using testing apparatus. In Level 1, there will always be a “safe” path through the neighborhood. In Phase I, the product will be beta-tested in 7th-grade health education classes in North Dakota (ND) to assess its usability and initial feasibility for increasing radon knowledge, testing, and remediation. In Phase II of this project, the rest of the game levels will be developed and will require students to advocate as change agents to get some homeowners to remediate (so the Rahi have a path through the neighborhood). In this manner, the students will demonstrate their radon awareness by responding to questions, counterarguments, and confronting misconceptions from homeowners. ​The product will then be tested across ND and neighboring states.

项目概要 每年，超过 21,000 名美国人因在家中接触氡气而死于肺癌。 这些死亡是可以通过提高认识、检测和补救措施来预防的，但数百名教育人员 过去 50 个项目没有产生任何明显的影响。该项目将克服关键 采用新颖独特的方法来提高对氡气的认识、测试和修复的障碍 依靠强制健康教育课程的“推”策略，而不是传统的“拉”策略 人们必须选择寻求氡意识教育的策略。以幼儿为目标 我们的解决方案还可能导致对氡气测试和治疗的终生了解和态度，而不是成年人。 补救措施将使未来的房主更有可能进行测试和补救。采用我们方法的学生将 通过倡导，发展知识和能力，使他们能够成为自己家庭的变革推动者 用于测试和修复。 ​Triad Interactive Media, Inc. 和北达科他大学的联合团队 将设计和开发一款数字游戏，吸引学习者并提供有关氡气的基本信息。 氡意识健康倡议：关于严重风险的严肃游戏（RAHI），将针对中学 义务学校健康教育课程的学生。这将是一个独立的程序，教师可以使用 并融入他们现有的课程。 该项目的第一阶段将集中于设计和开发严肃游戏的第一级和 门户网站，为教师和家长提供一套补充教育资源。这些材料将 有助于确保有效的课堂整合和家长与学生在家里的合作，因为它最终是 父母将做出有关家庭氡气测试和修复的决定。游戏中，同学们 将帮助一群外星人拉希人，他们的船在附近坠毁，需要帮助才能到达他们的家园 提取地点位于社区的另一侧。拉希人对氡气极其敏感——甚至少数人 接触浓度高于 4 ppm 的几秒钟即可杀死它们。拉希 (Rahi) 教育学生有关氡气的知识，反过来， 这些学生帮助他们使用测试设备绘制穿过社区的路径。在第 1 级中，将会有 始终是穿过社区的“安全”路径。在第一阶段，该产品将在七年级进行 beta 测试 在北达科他州 (ND) 举办健康教育课程，以评估其增加氡气的可用性和初步可行性 知识、测试和补救。在该项目的第二阶段，将开发其余的游戏关卡 并将要求学生作为变革推动者进行倡导，让一些房主进行补救（因此拉希 有一条穿过邻居的路径）。通过这种方式，学生将展示他们的氡意识 通过回答问题、反驳并面对房主的误解。​的 然后产品将在北达科他州和邻近州进行测试。