The enemy within: Designing a cell-based gameplay system for cancer education

Robin J. S. Sloan; Adrian Saurin

doi:10.1145/3341215.3356988

The enemy within: Designing a cell-based gameplay system for cancer education

Robin J. S. Sloan
, Adrian Saurin

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Abstract

This paper outlines the design and preliminary evaluation of The Enemy Within, a browser-based game produced to raise awareness of the nature of cancer as a progressive disease. Aimed at high school and young adult audiences, the ambition with the game is to make visible to players the myriad ways in which healthy cells can mutate and ultimately inherit hallmarks of cancer, whilst also demonstrating how both real-world behaviours and underlying genetics impact both positively and negatively on cell health.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI PLAY '19
Subtitle of host publication	Extended Abstracts of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	117-123
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450368711
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3341215.3356988
Publication status	Published - 17 Oct 2019
Event	6th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, CHI PLAY 2019 - Barcelona, Spain Duration: 22 Oct 2019 → 25 Oct 2019

Conference

Conference	6th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, CHI PLAY 2019
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	22/10/19 → 25/10/19

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

Applied games
Cancer
Computer games
Educational games
Games for health
Serious games

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction

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Sloan, RJS & Saurin, A 2019, The enemy within: Designing a cell-based gameplay system for cancer education. in CHI PLAY '19: Extended Abstracts of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 117-123, 6th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, CHI PLAY 2019, Barcelona, Spain, 22/10/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3341215.3356988

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