It was presented at Games for Health conference (5/18-19, 2011) in Boston, MA.

1. A Case study of a Girls
Physical Activity Program
Yoonsin Oh, Ph.D. Candidate
Virginia Horne Henry Fellow
University of Wisconsin-Madison

2. WHAT I’M
PLAYING...

3. U.S. Children & Adolescents
in 2003-2006
32%
BMI ≥ 85th percentile
(Ogden, Carroll, & Flegal, 2008)

4. Girls, in general, are less active than boys
(Trost et al., 2002)

5. Decline in Girl’s PA
White
Black
(Kimm et al., 2002)

6. Decline in Girl’s PA
White
Black
(Kimm et al., 2002)

8. Girl’s exergaming physical activity afterschool program

9. Girl’s exergaming physical activity
afterschool program
• Pilot study (8 weeks)
• Female
• Middle school aged students (6th-8th grade)
• Interested in playing pokémon game in a
group
• Weeks ethnographic data

10. Pokémon + Pedometer
1999 2000 2010

11. Pokémon & Pokéwalker

14. C
B D
A E
G F

15. 11 yr old
C 6th grade
12 yr old 13 yr old
6th grade B D 7th grade
12 yr old 13 yr old
6th grade A E 7th grade
12 yr old 13 yr old
G 6th grade F 8th grade

16. Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
7th 6th 8th
graders graders graders
A Exer-
3:30-7:00
High D C gaming
schoolers (3:30-4:30
B F )
E G

17. Weekly meeting for 8 weeks
except their spring break
3/18-5/13

18. Pre program BMI
BMI=30.1
98th
C Obese
BMI=31.4 BMI=25.6
98th 93rd
Obese B D Overweight
BMI=42.5 BMI=17.9
99th 37th
Obese A E Healthy
BMI=35.5 BMI=16.9
99th 18th
G Obese F Healthy

19. Pre program BMI
BMI=30.1
98th
C Obese
BMI=31.4 BMI=25.6
98th 92th
Obese B D Overweight
BMI=42.5 BMI=17.9
99th 37th
Obese A E Healthy
BMI=35.5 BMI=16.9
99th 18th
G Obese F Healthy

20. I am so happy! I got a good news.
so my sister and her two kids
lived with us like a year
BMI=42.5 and some months.
99th She found her own place
Obese A and finally leave.
4/8/11

21. BMI=31.4 BMI=25.6
98th 92th
Obese B D Overweight
Sisters
Just moved from other states
live in Salvation Army shelter
with 6 siblings and single mom w/o job
Dropped out of Girls Inc. program

22. Mental health issue
Anger problem
Suspended from school
BMI=35.5
99th
G Obese

23. Pre program BMI
BMI=30.1
98th
C Obese
Mom wants her to clean home
Grounded at home

24. BMI=42.5 BMI=17.9
99th 37th
Obese A E Healthy
BMI=16.9
18th
F Healthy

25. Pokéwalker Problems
“A: I didn’t wanna lose it... Sometimes it will fall off”
For Girls
1. Scared of losing it
2. Easy to lose or misplace
3. Forget to wear
For Researcher
1. Hard to record their step
numbers
2. Hours of Playing DS required
before using Pokéwalker
3. Players are never asked to link to
Pokéwalker during in-game play

26. BMI=16.9
18th
F Healthy

27. Physical Activity (pre program)
Y: Do you walk in general?
F: No.
Y: Why?
F: Because like, it’s kind of hard for me because it’ll
take
me a very long time to get to school and I will be
late.
Y: Do you walk outside of school when you are not in a
hurry?
F: No. Because like it’s still gonna take me a long
time.
I am probably My mom’s probably gonna want me to
be home.

28. Physical Activity (Post program)
Y: How do you think you’ve changed over the eight
weeks in your physical activity including walking
and
general?
B: I started to ride my bike more because now I ride it
anywhere except to school.
Y: Did you walk in general?
B: Yes.

29. Gym badges
BMI=42.5 BMI=17.9
99th 37th
Obese A E Healthy
BMI=16.9
18th
F Healthy

30. Post program BMI
BMI=44 BMI=18.8
99th 54th
Obese A E Healthy
BMI=17.1
20th
F Healthy

31. Lesson
1. Pay attention to girls’ life
C
B D
A
G

32. Lesson
2. Be prepared to lose equipment

33. Lessons
3. Make it easier for participants to contribute

34. Lessons
4. Incentives

35. thank you
Virginia Horne Henry Fellowship
www.yoonsinoh.org

36. References
Kimm, S., Glynn, N. W., Kriska, A. M., Barton, B. A., Kronsberg, S. S., Daniels, S. R.
et al. (2002). Decline in physical activity in black girls and white girls during
adolescence. The New England journal of medicine, 347(10), 709.
Ogden, C. L., Carroll, M. D., & Flegal, K. M. (2008). High body mass index for age
among US children and adolescents, 2003-2006. JAMA: the journal of the American
Medical Association, 299(20), 2401.
Trost, S. G., Pate, R. R., Sallis, J. F., Freedson, P. S., Taylor, W. C., Dowda, M. et al.
(2002). Age and gender differences in objectively measured physical activity in
youth. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 34(2), 350-355.

37. Photo Credits
Slide 2: Pokémon Heartgold: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/75/Pokemon_HeartGold_Version_box.jpg/256px-
Pokemon_HeartGold_Version_box.jpg
Pokémon Soulsilver: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aKIwBO1p12Y/TKX43z5tFkI/AAAAAAAAC4c/y3ia61iVe1A/s400/pokemon-soul-silver.png
Animal Crossing Wild World: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/34/Animal-crossing-wild-world-20060323091032903.jpg/256px-
Animal-crossing-wild-world-20060323091032903.jpg
Chibi-robo!: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Chibi_Robo.jpg
Pokéwalker: http://media.nintendo.com/nintendo/bin/6h3SVCh4LpHmuce8lBfQOZnMK5mscR64/wwZ-bVaI29En9Z7EOkCNO4DG-DINcgb5.jpg
Katamari Damacy: http://dsmedia.ign.com/ds/image/article/956/956583/korogashi-puzzle-katamari-damacy-20090224080909380.jpg
Trade Nations:http://epic-gamer.com/files/2010/11/trade_nations.jpg
We Rule Quest!: http://www.ngmoco.com/we-rule/files/2010/10/loading_phone_lock_screen_final-297x183.png
Dance Central: http://www.ifc.com/news/assets_c/12092010_Dance_Central_DLC.jpg
EarthBound: http://starmen.net/mother2/images/screenshots/title.png
Team Fortress 2: http://features.cgsociety.org/stories/2007_11/team_fortress/banner01a.jpg
Slide 6: Graph from Kimm, S., Glynn, N. W., Kriska, A. M., Barton, B. A., Kronsberg, S. S., Daniels, S. R. et al. (2002). Decline in physical activity in
black girls and white girls during adolescence. The New England journal of medicine, 347(10), 709.
Slide 7: Girls Inc. logo: http://www.girlsinc-online.org/sites/all/themes/gio/logo.png
Slide 8: Pokémon female trainers: http://static.desktopnexus.com/thumbnails/233909-bigthumbnail.jpg
Slide 10: http://pallettribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/pikachu.png
Slide 11: See Slide 2
Slide 12: http://www.el33tonline.com/images/cache/6605.jpg
Slide 13: See Slide 2
Slide 16: See Slide 7
Slide 24: Pokémon trainer: http://img3.lln.crunchyroll.com/i/spire1/08162008/e/4/4/a/e44a8dc032b980_full.png
Slide 25: See Slide 2
Slide 29: Gym Badge: http://www.craigrom.com/badges/wp-content/uploads/Pokemon%20Heart%20Gold%20Badges.jpg
Slide 30: See Slide 24
Slide 32: Leash :http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/public/ZZ0O2x09B_rf-1ySPkyOvt9d6vQfkUKroe5eyDCDtXHjncKNaFjAYe5yity_0CwA0h__R-
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Pokéwalekr: See slide 2
Slide 34: Gift boxes: http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/6748514/2/istockphoto_6748514-gift-boxes.jpg
Slide 35: GLS logo: http://www.gameslearningsociety.org/
TEN logo: http://exergaming.pbworks.com/f/1261007362/TEN-logo-4-reduced-size.jpg
University of Wisconsin logo: http://www.uc.wisc.edu/brand/templates-and-downloads/print-logos.php