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Technology-Based Trainings on Emotions: A Web Application on Earthquake-Related Emotional Prevention with Children

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Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, 9th International Conference (MIS4TEL 2019)

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Abstract

In light of their potential for learning and engagement, using technology-based programs can be particularly relevant to enhance children’s emotional competence, also in relation to traumatic events such as disasters. Some studies investigated the efficacy of technology-based interventions fostering this ability, focusing on its different components, with different populations, and using different designs, but they did not relate specifically to disasters such as earthquakes. Nevertheless, in everyday life knowledge on earthquakes can be promoted through the use of mobile applications. We searched electronically all the applications present within the Google Play Store, identifying 20 applications on earthquake prevention. None of them was specifically focused on earthquake-related emotional contents, but some of them included some emotional elements. Therefore, to fill in the gaps in the current psychological literature, we developed a web application to promote earthquake-related emotional knowledge, to be tested in the future according to the standards of evidence-based research.

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  1. Department of Human Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

    Daniela Raccanello, Giada Vicentini, Margherita Brondino & Roberto Burro

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  1. Computer Science Faculty, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

    Rosella Gennari

  2. Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

    Pierpaolo Vittorini

  3. Department of Computer Science and Automation Control , University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Fernando De la Prieta

  4. Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

    Tania Di Mascio

  5. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale , Sapienza UniversitĂ  di Roma , Rome, Italy

    Marco Temperini

  6. Department of Computer Science and Statistics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, FlorianĂłpolis, Brazil

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  7. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, Colombia

    Demetrio Arturo Ovalle Carranza

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Raccanello, D., Vicentini, G., Brondino, M., Burro, R. (2020). Technology-Based Trainings on Emotions: A Web Application on Earthquake-Related Emotional Prevention with Children. In: Gennari, R., et al. Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, 9th International Conference. MIS4TEL 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1007 . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23990-9_7

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