E-health, good or bad idea for children?

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In Australia, smart health connected objects in health and sport are debated. Researchers therefore want to deepen the impact that these devices have on children so that they can be used wisely.

ehealth games in sport and health for children

A number of companies have launched digital health products and games for children. In January 2013, Konami, a maker of the popular ehealth game Dance Dance Revolution, partnered with UnitedHealthcare (a division of UnitedHealth Group). This allowedoffer DanceDanceRevolution as a pilot in three schools in Florida, Georgia and Texas.

There are other digital health start-ups that also focus on helping children reach a healthy weight. Less than a year ago, a company focused onchildhood obesity, called Kurbo Health, the company raised $ 5.8 million AUD (or 4 million euros). Kurbo Health is currently developing a mobile program to prevent childhood obesity. At the time, the company announced that it had launched its program for iOS users, it cost from $ 10 to $ 75 AUD per month, depending on the model chosen and the amount of training included.

E-health for children debated

This year in Australia, the University of Queensland embarked on a three-year research project. This project will examine the impact of digital health tools on children's sports programs. The project is also carried out in collaboration with researchers from Melbourne and Illinois. He received $ 177,000 AUD (€ 123,000) from the Australian Research Council Discovery Grant.

Professor Michael Gard of the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences is associated with the University of Queensland for this project. He plans to look for philosophical and educational consequences of this technology on children's physical programs.

"Are we going to harness the power of digital technology to broaden the minds of students and offer different choices about how they live, or are we going to use it to monitoring student behavior and tell them how to live?”He said in a statement.

Michael Gard then added: "For example, much of the health-related technology we use requires children to count the calories they consume and to spend them while playing sports. Is this what we want for our students? "

The project therefore plans to study, for children, the consequences of smart health connected objects linked to health and sport.

Researchers also want analyze how schools use digital health tools to find out the shape of their students, their BMI for example. They also want to know what schools do with the data collected.

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