eBOOM is a game for socialising with new technologies, which allows learning how to detect and manage the signs of screen addiction among adolescents and pre-adolescents, between 12 and 16 years of age, and help their families.
This gamified training against young people's addictions to technology has been developed as an Innovation Project by the Eina Emerging Research Group in Design, Health and Wellbeing at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), recognised by the Generalitat de Catalunya, in collaboration with the Information and Communication Sciences Department at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).
The project consists of a set of gamified actions that, from the design of the experience, allow participants to expand their knowledge and reflect on fictional situations that promote the intergenerational exchange of roles.
eBOOM focuses on both young people and their educational environments, to train them in the conscious use of devices, starting with an understanding of the vocabulary and register of online environments.
In this sense, two sessions will be held to test the game among families:
→Thursday, 21 March from 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
→Wednesday, 10 April from 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Venue: UOC Media Lab (Rambla del Poblenou, 156)
Pre-registration at https://forms.gle/bweUjYLgyZt3P3mo8
Techno-addictions are one of the major problems of concern to our society, including all the phenomena or problems of abuse of New Information and Communication Technologies (NICTs), and are often manifested in Internet addiction from mobile devices.
This innovation project has been a finalist in the Citilab 2020 innovation public procurement process for the search for solutions against technology addictions among young people.
eBOOM is carried out by Elena Bartomeu (IP), Salvador Huertas and Raúl Oliva. With the collaboration of the following institutions: IES La Serreta (Rubí), MAGNET, GDM GAMES, GReVIA (Research Group on Child and Adolescent Victimisation, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology of the University of Barcelona (UB), Eina Private Foundation.
