Integrated Framework for Managing Childhood Obesity Based on Biobanks, AI Tools and Methods, and Serious Games

The growing epidemic of childhood obesity is a major threat to their overall development and poses a number of challenges for health systems. We propose an integrated framework to comprehensively address childhood obesity. The proposed architecture addresses essential data management and pre-processing functionalities to support scalable, secure, and privacy-preserving data processing in distributed environments. We are also incorporating a health data-driven AI approach for predictive analytics and decision support. There is additionally a User Engagement Layer, which serves as the main point of interaction for users. It connects individuals to system capabilities, facilitating data collection, progress monitoring, and insights. Finally, we present four serious games designed to address protective factors (such as physical activity and healthy eating) and mitigate risk factors (such as excessive screen time and unhealthy food choices). The identified educational objectives were translated into game elements including goal setting, social support, and positive reinforcement. In order to facilitate our approach, we have described the essential data flows and user interactions within our Biobank architecture.

• Childhood Obesity
• Serious Games
• Behavior Change
• Public Health
• Intervention Strategies
• Framework
• AI Tools

@Article{electronics14102053,
	AUTHOR = {Vondikakis, Ioannis and Politi, Elena and Goulis, Dimitrios and Dimitrakopoulos, George and Georgoulis, Michael and Saltaouras, George and Kontogianni, Meropi and Brisimi, Theodora and Logothetis, Marios and Kakoulidis, Harry and Prasinos, Marios and Anastasiou, Athanasios and Kakkos, Ioannis and Vellidou, Eleftheria and Matsopoulos, George and Koutsouris, Dimitris},
	TITLE = {Integrated Framework for Managing Childhood Obesity Based on Biobanks, AI Tools and Methods, and Serious Games},
	JOURNAL = {Electronics},
	VOLUME = {14},
	YEAR = {2025},
	NUMBER = {10},
	ARTICLE-NUMBER = {2053},
	URL = {https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/14/10/2053},
	ISSN = {2079-9292},
	DOI = {10.3390/electronics14102053}
}

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