The design space of body games

HCI often requires scholars to build upon research from fields outside their expertise, creating the risk that foundational work is misunderstood and misrepresented. The prevailing goal of "exergames" research towards ameliorating obesity appears to be built on just such a misunderstanding of health research. In this paper, we analyse all citations to a single influential study, which has been extensively cited to justify research on exergames. We categorise the 375 citations based on whether they represent the findings of that study accurately or inaccurately. Our findings suggest that 69% of exergames papers citing this study misrepresent the findings, demonstrating a systematic failure of scholarship in exergames research. We argue that exergaming research should cease focusing on games as treatment for obesity, and that HCI publications should demand more critical and scholarly engagement with research from outside HCI.

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“…treating them as interesting 'body games' [40] or 'sports' [46], rather than as a device for producing health benefits.…”

Section: Implications For Hci and Exertion Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Misrepresentation of Health Research in Exertion Games Literature

Marshall

Linehan

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Both are designed to promote features of full contact sports [16]. We were also informed by existing guidelines for 'movement games' and 'body games' [9,12], in particular when considering the social aspects of our game designs. Studying participants' experiences with these games allows us to address our fundamental research question: How should we design good full contact digital games?…”

Section: Studying Brutal Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing Brutal Multiplayer Video Games

Marshall

Linehan

Hazzard

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…This is typically the case in technology-sustained approaches (Waern, 2009), in which designers view technology as that which sustains the whole activity. In such approaches, technical constraints can severely limit design possibilities (Márquez Segura, Waern, Moen & Johansson, 2013). By contrast, we suggest using a technologysupported design approach (Waern, 2009), in which designers view technology only as a part of that which sustains the whole activity.…”

Section: Authors' Notementioning

confidence: 99%

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2016

Human Technology

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Human Technology is an interdisciplinary, scholarly journal publishing innovative, peer-reviewed articles exploring the issues and challenges within human-technology interaction and the human role in all areas of our ICT-infused societies.Human Technology, published by the Agora Center, University of Jyväskylä, is distributed without a charge online. ISSN: 1795-6889 www.humantechnology.jyu.fi Volume 12(2), November 2016, 103-104 103From the Publisher CHANGE IN HUMAN TECHNOLOGY'S PUBLISHER: CONTINUED FOCUS ON OPEN ACCESS HUMAN-TECHNOLOGY RESEARCHThe Human Technology journal will begin a new chapter in its publishing life on January 1, 2017. On that date, the responsibility for publishing the journal will transfer to the new Open Science Center at the University of Jyväskylä, an organization currently in development in which one division will oversee the ongoing support of open access publishing at the university. This change is necessitated by the university's decision to close the Agora Center, the interdisciplinary research unit that initiated and supported the journal from its inception. Despite the Agora Center's focus on the phenomena in contemporary society where humans were impacted or facilitated by technology, its international networks of like-minded colleagues, and its commitment to quality interdisciplinary research, the research unit has been deemed unnecessary in the new university structure. As the university's rector indicated in his public announcement in April 2016, it is his belief that this research should be part of the mission of every faculty of the university, and thus the university as a whole. The rector also indicated that the international, open access journal Human Technology was valuable not only to the university but to the scientific community. We are pleased that the current editor in chief, Dr. Pertti Hurme, has agreed to extend his editorship until we bring in a new editor in chief next year. Our long-serving managing editor, Barbara Crawford, M.A., also will continue with the journal. Our international editorial board also will remain active in their work in advancing the mission of the journal. We do not anticipate that the daily operations of the journal will be affected, and, we hope, will be improved by the journal's inclusion in the publications area of the Open Science Center. We are currently negotiating with the administration of the Open Science Center to establish an interdisciplinary publisher's board to maintain and enhance the scientific expertise so essential for a growing journal. We are confident that this will be achieved and the journal can continue to reach new audiences as authors and readers and to continue to advance research in this essential field of human-technology.At this time, I would like to publically acknowledge the long-term expertise and guidance of Dr. Päivi Fadjukoff, currently the director of planning and development for the Agora Center, who has wisely and graciously overseen the role of the publisher in these last 13 years of our jour...

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The design space of body games

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Misrepresentation of Health Research in Exertion Games Literature

Misrepresentation of Health Research in Exertion Games Literature

Designing Brutal Multiplayer Video Games

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