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Digital health is a rapidly expanding field. Asthma, the leading chronic disease in children, has serious medical consequences. One of the challenges is to deliver personalized therapeutic education to improve self-management skills for the disease. This thesis aims to develop and validate a digital health education tool targeting asthmatic children in collaboration with the company ItWell. A first part of the studies focuses on the design of a serious game (KidBreath) to develop educational content and strategies. A second part validates the tool through studies with asthmatic children by showing that KidBreath improves knowledge about asthma while motivating children to play it. The integration of a system that automates the learning path according to the learner's progress reduces the number of contents and the time spent playing. Overall, therapeutic education for children using personalized serious games is a promising avenue of research to support health literacy in chronic disease situations. Related publications: Delmas, A. (2017, August). Participatory design and evaluation of a serious game for asthmatic children. In 29th French-speaking conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 12-p). https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-... Delmas, A., Magnier, C., & Argillier, C. (2016, October). Adaptive device for disease awareness and treatment adherence of asthma in children. In 5th Conference in Health Ergonomic and Patient Safety. https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01412960/ Linkedin profile: / alexandra-delmas-48200b90