Misrepresentation of Health Research in Exertion Games Literature

Jan 25, 2017

Joe Marshall, Conor Linehan, 2017. Misrepresentation of Health Research in Exertion Games Literature. In Proceedings of 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Honorable Mention (top 5% of submissions) PDF

I presented this paper at CHI 2017, where we received a Best Paper Honorable Mention award. In it we discuss how exertion games work is not necessarily well founded in research from health fields, with a big literature analysis of how work in exertion gaming specifically misrepresents one particular public health paper in order to push the idea that computer games make people fat.

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