Abstract
Keywords
At the request of the Journal Editor and SAGE Publishing, the following article has been retracted.
Bailey Thomas, Thabtah Fadi, Wright Marcus, Tran Duy Anh (2019) FoodKnight: A mobile educational game and analyses of obesity awareness in children. Health Informatics Journal. Epub ahead of print 23 December 2019. DOI: 10.1177/1460458219888405.
The Health Informatics Journal Editorial Office became aware that the peer review process for this article did not meet the journal’s usual rigorous peer review standards. Following guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the irregularities were investigated and the article was re-reviewed by a new set of referees whose feedback informed the Editor’s decision to retract the article because the article does not satisfactorily meet the required standards of the journal.
References
1.
Nishtar
SP.
Commission on ending childhood obesity . World Health Organization , 2017 , https://www.who.int/end-childhood-obesity/facts/en/
2.
Lee
MC
Choi
Y
Quilliam
ET
, et al . Playing with food: content analysis of food advergames . J Consum Aff 2009 ; 43 : 129 –154 .
3.
Schwimmer
JB
Burwinkle
TM
Varni
JW.
Health-related quality of life of severely obese children and adolescents . JAMA 2003 ; 289 : 1813 –1819 .
4.
Vicky Campbell
JC
. Obesity – children . Health Navigator , 2018 , https://www.healthnavigator.org.nz/health-a-z/o/obesity-children/
5.
Blasingame
T.
Addressing childhood obesity with education . J Child Obes 2017 ; 2 : 1 –10 .
6.Education Review Office (New Zealand) . Effective practice report: Food, nutrition and physical activity in New Zealand schools and early learning services . Wellington : New Zealand Government , 2017 , https://www.ero.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/Effective-practice-report-Food-Nutrition-and-Physcial-Activity-in-NZ-Schools-and-ELS2.pdf
7.Education Review Office (New Zealand) . Food, nutrition and physical activity in New Zealand and early learning services: Key findings . Wellington : New Zealand Government , 2016 , https://www.ero.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/Key-findings-report-food-nutrition-and-physical-activity.pdf
8.
Mayo
MJ.
Games for science and engineering education . Commun ACM 2008 ; 50 : 31 –35 .
9.
Flannery
B.
Video game education . Computer Science and Information Systems , University of Nebraska-Kearney , 2010 , http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.466.4079&rep=rep1&type=pdf
10.
Williamson
B.
Computer games, schools, and young people . London : Futurelab , 2009 .
11.
Koepp
MJ
Gunn
RN
Lawrence
AD
, et al . Evidence for striatal dopamine release during a video game . Nature 1998 ; 3 , 266 –268 .
12.
Sharp
LA.
Stealth learning: unexpected learning opportunities through games . J Instr Res 2012 ; 1 : 42 –48 , https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1127609.pdf
13.
Tyagi
K.
Child Obesity & Healthy Eating Habits for Fat Kids . Google Play Store , 2019 , https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.OneLife2Care.ChildhoodObesityHelp
14.Google . Healthy eating with Diana . Google Play Store , 2013 , https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mgc.es.diana&hl=en
15.Ganaysa . Healthy Hero Pro . Google Play Store , 2017 , https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.moora.HealthyHero
16.
Five Bits
I
. Fit the Fat 2 . Google Play Store , 2017 , https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fivebits.fitthefat2&hl=en
17.
18.
Alexandra
H.
Celeste: the Kotaku review . Kotaku , 2018 , https://www.kotaku.com.au/2018/01/celeste-the-kotakureview/
19.
20.Polygon . The 500 best games of all time: 100-1 , 2017 , https://www.polygon.com/features/2017/12/1/16707720/the-500-best-games-of-all-time-100-1
21.Nintendo . Super Mario Bros: Instruction booklet . Japan : Nintendo , 1985 .
22.
Robinson
M.
Miyamoto on how Nintendo made Mario’s most iconic level . Eurogamer , 2015 , https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-09-07-video-miyamoto-on-how-nintendo-made-marios-most-iconic-level
23.
Kuchera
B.
TowerFall might be the best multiplayer game on Nintendo Switch . Polygon , 2018 , https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/1/17923144/towerfall-switch-multiplayer
24.
Foddy
B.
Why you don’t want an online mode in TowerFall . Polygon , 2014 , https://www.polygon.com/2014/3/11/5491146/why-you-dont-want-an-online-mode-towerfall
25.Duolingo . Duolingo application . Google Play Store , 2019 , https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duolingo
26.Roblox . Roblox: about , 2019 , https://www.roblox.com/?v=rc&rbx_source=3&rbx_medium=cpa&rbx_campaign=1628966322#WhatsRobloxContainer
27.Roblox. Roblox game . Google Play , 2019 , https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.roblox.client
28.
Fahey
R
Anthem’s launch and the power of the sunk-cost fallacy . gamesindustry.biz , 2019 , https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-03-08-anthems-launch-and-the-power-of-the-sunk-cost-fallacy-opinion
29.
van Reijmersdal
E
Rozendaal
E
Buijzen
M
Eisend
M
Langner
T
. Children’s responses to advergames: the role of game and child characteristics . European Advertising Academy , 2011 , https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/1810026/122164_356810.pdf
30.
Pempek
TA
Calvert
SL
. Tipping the balance: use of advergames to promote consumption of nutritious foods and beverages by low-income African American children . Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine 2009 ; 163 (7 ): 633 –637 .
31.
McLeod
S
. Skinner: operant conditioning . Simply Psychology , 2018 , https://www.simplypsychology.org/operant-conditioning.html
32.
Thabtah
F
Abdelhamid
N
Peebles
D.
A machine learning autism classification based on logistic regression analysis . Health Inf Sci Syst 2019 ; 7 (1 ): 12 .
33.
Thabtah
F
Peebles
D.
A new machine learning model based on induction of rules for autism detection . Health Inform J . Epud ahead of print 29 January 2019 . DOI: 10.1177/1460458218824711.
34.
Thabtah
F.
An accessible and efficient autism screening method for behavioural data and predictive analyses . Health Inform J 2018 ; 25 : 1739 –1755 .