On Making Engagement Tangible

Patient Engagement and its Evaluation Tools – Current Challenges and Future Directions; Comment on “Metrics and Evaluation Tools for Patient Engagement in Healthcare Organization- and System-Level Decision-Making: A Systematic Review”

Considering the growing recognition of the importance of patient engagement in healthcare decisions, research and delivery systems, it is important to ensure high quality and efficient patient engagement evaluation tools. In this commentary, we will first highlight the definition and importance of patient engagement. Then we discuss the psychometric properties of the patient engagement evaluati...

Using a Serious Game with a Tangible Tabletop Interface to Promote Student Engagement in a First Grade Classroom: A Comparative Evaluation Study

This study considers to what extent a tangible tabletop interface can enhance student engagement in a serious mathematics game compared to regular interaction with the same game in a classroom. The participants were eleven first grade students randomly assigned to three groups. Each group played the standard game in a classroom environment and then the same game again, this time implemented on ...

Exploring Children’s Engagement, Enjoyment and Collaboration on Tangible User Interfaces

Social Mobile Interaction using Tangible User Interfaces and Mobile Phones

This ‘work in progress’ paper presents an investigation of mobile input devices and interaction techniques on their effects on social engagement for children when interacting with virtual characters. We call interactions social mobile interactions if they increase social involvements. Social mobile interactions are collaborative interactions to create social experiences between children in a gr...

An empowerment intervention for Indigenous communities: an outcome assessment

BACKGROUND Empowerment programs have been shown to contribute to increased empowerment of individuals and build capacity within the community or workplace. To-date, the impact of empowerment programs has yet to be quantified in the published literature in this field. This study assessed the Indigenous-developed Family Wellbeing (FWB) program as an empowerment intervention for a child safety wor...