[Health] [IAEP] New activity from OLPC France

[Stefanie Nobel]

Hi Ian,



Certainly, my goal is to make it customizable as far as possible. I plan to
provide the admin with the possibility to adjust the databases, in order to
adapt the content to the local context (e.g. diseases like obesity or
diabetes). For now I am thinking of three different databases:



-         One for all *aliments* (in natural state as well as in prepared
state like pureed tomato) with their nutritional value

-         The second one includes all nutritional value needs of the *human
body*, their daily dose and the period how long this value can be stored

-         And the last one with “*activities*” and the value how many this
activity consume a certain nutritional value



The last database is the most individual one. Activity means here not only a
kind of sport; it can also mean a season or a disease. So I name any
particular condition an activity, when it consumes a nutritional value.
Finally, to answer your question, I try to make it customizable by offering
several databases of activities.


2011/4/17 Ian Thomson <IanT at spc.int>

>  Hi Stefanie,
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> This sounds like a great game. Will it be customizable to various
> regions/customs?
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> I come from the Pacific and the diet here is quite different from that in
> say India or Africa.
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> We have a great problem in the region with obesity leading to high rates of
> diabetes caused by a combination of high levels of poor quality of food
> (e.g. white rice and fatty meat) and little exercise. Educating children
> about the nutritional value of food is a good addition to efforts to improve
> the situation.
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> Ian Thomson
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> *From:* iaep-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:
> iaep-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org] *On Behalf Of *Stefanie Nobel
> *Sent:* Monday, April 18, 2011 2:25 AM
> *To:* health at lists.laptop.org; sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org;
> iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
> *Subject:* [IAEP] New activity from OLPC France
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> Hello,
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> I’m glad to present you a new project from OLPC France. For the next six
> months we will develop a new playful software, which aims at educating
> children about a healthier nutrition.
> In this game children are taking care of an avatar by providing him with
> meals, which they have to prepare before. By doing so the children are meant
> to learn the importance of good nutrition for their healthy.
> The game will be supported by Danone Research. They will not only finance
> the project but also share their great knowledge on this topic with us.
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> We’re just at the begining of the development but here is a short
> description of our first ideas:
> The game will be split in two parts:
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>    - In one part the children can create their own recipes in a virtual
>    environment, similar to a “cook studio”. There is also the possibility to
>    share these recipes with other children.
>    - The other part is for validation: Here the meal will be “validated”
>    by the avatar, (for example, a reaction might be, that the avatar can’t do
>    homework because he has not sufficient energy).
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> So at first we will have to define the relevant parameters, which you have
> to consider when you validate a healthy meal, for example:
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>    - The need of the different nutritional values,
>    - The nutritional value of the aliment
>    - In natural and organic state and
>    - after the preparation of the meal
>    - The activities, the avatar/child do/did during the day
>    - The season and the weather
>    - The times of the meals during the day(this has an impact on the gain
>    of the food)
>    - The health of the avatar/child
>    - The extent of hygienic conditions when preparing the food
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> The next step will be to collect all those information and integrate it
> into a rough logic.
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> So don’t hesitate to comment about this project and share your thoughts.
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> We appreciate all kinds of input!
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> Stefanie
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