[IAEP] New activity from OLPC France

[mokurai at earthtreasury.org]

On Fri, April 22, 2011 4:59 am, Stefanie Nobel wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
>
>
> Certainly, my goal is to make it customizable as far as possible. I plan
> to
> provide the admin with the possibility to adjust the databases, in order
> to
> adapt the content to the local context (e.g. diseases like obesity or
> diabetes). For now I am thinking of three different databases:

Don't forget the nutritional components of AIDS, malaria, drug-resistant
TB, cholera, river blindness, and extreme dietary deficiencies, among
others that plague developing countries.

> -         One for all *aliments* (in natural state as well as in prepared
> state like pureed tomato) with their nutritional value

There is a fairly good USDA table covering all of that for foods commonly
available in the US. It needs to be extended to cover other countries and
other cultures. Eating acorns, for example, by Native Americans, or
insects in many places, or poisonous yams in parts of Africa, after you
extract the poison.

> -         The second one includes all nutritional value needs of the
> *human
> body*, their daily dose and the period how long this value can be stored

plus the results of mild and extreme deficiencies, and methods of
providing nutrients to those suffering extreme deprivation, who can die
from suddenly eating normally. (Documented in liberated Nazi concentration
camps, and others like them.)

> -         And the last one with “*activities*” and the value how many this
> activity consume a certain nutritional value
>
>
>
> The last database is the most individual one. Activity means here not only
> a kind of sport; it can also mean a season or a disease. So I name any
> particular condition an activity, when it consumes a nutritional value.

Excellent.

> Finally, to answer your question, I try to make it customizable by
> offering several databases of activities.

We will want to be able to fully localize the software and the databases.

> 2011/4/17 Ian Thomson <IanT at spc.int>
>
>>  Hi Stefanie,
>>
>>
>>
>> This sounds like a great game. Will it be customizable to various
>> regions/customs?
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>> I come from the Pacific and the diet here is quite different from that
>> in say India or Africa.
>>
>>
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>> We have a great problem in the region with obesity leading to high rates
>> of
>> diabetes caused by a combination of high levels of poor quality of food
>> (e.g. white rice and fatty meat) and little exercise. Educating children
>> about the nutritional value of food is a good addition to efforts to
>> improve the situation.
>>
>>
>>
>> Ian Thomson
>>
>> ICT Outreach Section
>>
>> Economic Development Division
>>
>> Secretariat of the Pacific Community
>>
>> B.P. D5 - Noumea Cedex - 98848
>>
>> New Caledonia
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>>
>>
>> Phone +687-265419
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>>
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>> Fax +687 26 38 18
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>> http://www.spc.int
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>> *From:* iaep-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:
>> iaep-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org] *On Behalf Of *Stefanie Nobel
>> *Sent:* Monday, April 18, 2011 2:25 AM
>> *To:* health at lists.laptop.org; sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org;
>> iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> *Subject:* [IAEP] New activity from OLPC France
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I’m glad to present you a new project from OLPC France. For the next six
>> months we will develop a new playful software, which aims at educating
>> children about a healthier nutrition.
>> In this game children are taking care of an avatar by providing him with
>> meals, which they have to prepare before. By doing so the children are
>> meant
>> to learn the importance of good nutrition for their healthy.
>> The game will be supported by Danone Research. They will not only
>> finance
>> the project but also share their great knowledge on this topic with us.
>>
>> We’re just at the begining of the development but here is a short
>> description of our first ideas:
>> The game will be split in two parts:
>>
>>    - In one part the children can create their own recipes in a virtual
>>    environment, similar to a “cook studio”. There is also the
>> possibility to
>>    share these recipes with other children.
>>    - The other part is for validation: Here the meal will be “validated”
>>    by the avatar, (for example, a reaction might be, that the avatar
>> can’t do
>>    homework because he has not sufficient energy).
>>
>> So at first we will have to define the relevant parameters, which you
>> have
>> to consider when you validate a healthy meal, for example:
>>
>>    - The need of the different nutritional values,
>>    - The nutritional value of the aliment
>>    - In natural and organic state and
>>    - after the preparation of the meal
>>    - The activities, the avatar/child do/did during the day
>>    - The season and the weather
>>    - The times of the meals during the day(this has an impact on the
>> gain
>>    of the food)
>>    - The health of the avatar/child
>>    - The extent of hygienic conditions when preparing the food
>>
>>
>>
>> The next step will be to collect all those information and integrate it
>> into a rough logic.
>>
>>
>>
>> So don’t hesitate to comment about this project and share your thoughts.
>>
>> We appreciate all kinds of input!
>>
>>
>>
>> Stefanie
>>
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