@inbook{2980757af6b9492d9f6e276d2aa9d094,
title = "Games against health: A player-centered design philosophy",
abstract = "This paper announces the {"}Games Against Health{"} (GAH) research agenda, a criticism of, and response to, the cultural imperialism of the {"}Games for Health{"} paradigm. Committed to player-centric design ethics, GAH seeks to dismantle the {"}games for health{"} myth as neo-liberal elitist diktat. We acknowledge the values, tastes and pleasures of billions of game players worldwide. We argue that game designers should engage more efficiently in the disimprovement of player health and wellbeing in order to cater to those players' existing preferences. We hope the paper can serve as a convenient reference for those designing psychotic, sociopathic or antisocial games.",
keywords = "Eat, Game, Play, Sit, Still",
author = "Conor Linehan and Sabine Harrer and Ben Kirman and Shaun Lawson and Marcus Carter",
year = "2015",
month = apr,
day = "18",
doi = "10.1145/2702613.2732514",
language = "English",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery ",
pages = "589--598",
booktitle = "CHI 2015 - Extended Abstracts Publication of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
address = "United States",
note = "33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015 ; Conference date: 18-04-2015 Through 23-04-2015",
}