“Take a deep breath: Spiroartis – The First Artbased Spirometry Platform for Adolescent Asthma Patients” presented by Bojic

Take a deep breath: Spiroartis – The First Artbased Spirometry Platform for Adolescent Asthma Patients

There is tremendous potential to apply artbased incentive gamifi-cation in diagnostic, monitoring and therapeutic management of chronic diseases such as asthma and cystic fibrosis. There is also an increasing need for more customised transdisciplinary ap-proaches to diagnostic and monitoring health technologies. Spi-rometry is an indispensable technique employed in the initial diag-nosis to detect and quantify the degree of airflow obstruction, as-sessment of severity, and follow-up of chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma and cystic fibrosis. There is a range of incentive animations currently employed in spirometry to engage children and adolescent patients to achieve required values for a correct di-agnosis. However, not all children are interested in sporting games used as incentive games or simple animations, and the resultant novelty effect means that interest and use taper off by the age of ten. Spiroartis is the first arbased spirometry platform to produce original and creative digital artworks generated by the breath of patients during lung volume testing. A proof-of-concept platform has been designed and tested on a group of adolescent asthma pa-tients, with all participants in the cohort preferring the SpiroArtis artworks generated over incentive animations currently being used. SpiroArtis also promotes better engagement, and motivation in pa-tients with respiratory diseases such as asthma and cystic fibrosis.