Misrepresentation of health research in exertion games literature
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 1321476
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.1145/3025453.3025691
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- First page
- 4899
- Volume
- 2017-May
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- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Citation count
- 8
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Exertion games literature argues that by combining computer gaming and physical exercise people can be encouraged to exercise more. This paper presents a systematic case study of how exertion games literature uses health claims and demonstrates that a large number of publications in the field are based on flawed misrepresentations of the health research they cite. This casts serious doubts on the theoretical basis and hence potential efficacy of exertion games. This paper won an honourable mention (top 5% of papers) at ACM CHI, the most prestigious publication venue for HCI research, with a 25% acceptance rate.
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- Non-English
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