Handum: Developing a Learning Mobile Game on Health for Philippine Schools

Abstract

Project Handum was a project by the University of the Philippines and funded by the Department of Science and Technology Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD). There are two primary outputs of this project—an Android mobile phone application called Outbreak Vanguard, which discusses topics in the Department of Education Health curriculum for grade school and high school children through an adventure game, and its accompanying Teacher Portal, a website where teachers can monitor the performance of their students playing the game. This paper describes the theoretical background, software, and content of Project Handum. The Outbreak Vanguard mobile game is available for free on the Google Play store starting August 2022.