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

SDI - Games and Arts

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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 Extended Abstracts
Subtitle of host publication	Extended Abstracts of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	117-123
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	9781450368711
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3341215.3356988
Publication status	Published - 22 Oct 2019
Event	CHI PLAY 2019 - Barcelona, Spain Duration: 22 Oct 2019 → 25 Oct 2019 https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/

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Conference	CHI PLAY 2019
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	22/10/19 → 25/10/19
Internet address	https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/

Keywords

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

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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: Extended Abstracts of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 117-123, CHI PLAY 2019, Barcelona, Spain, 22/10/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3341215.3356988

The enemy within : designing a cell-based gameplay system for cancer education. / Sloan, Robin J. S.; Saurin, Adrian.

CHI Play '19 Extended Abstracts: Extended Abstracts of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2019. p. 117-123.

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