Misrepresentation of health research in exertion games literature

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dc.contributor.authorMarshall, Joe
dc.contributor.authorLinehan, Conor
dc.contributor.funderLeverhulme Trusten
dc.contributor.funderEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Councilen
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-26T11:13:44Z
dc.date.available2018-07-26T11:13:44Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.date.updated2018-07-26T09:52:36Z
dc.description.abstractHCI often requires scholars to build upon research from fields outside their expertise, creating the risk that foundational work is misunderstood and misrepresented. The prevailing goal of "exergames" research towards ameliorating obesity appears to be built on just such a misunderstanding of health research. In this paper, we analyse all citations to a single influential study, which has been extensively cited to justify research on exergames. We categorise the 375 citations based on whether they represent the findings of that study accurately or inaccurately. Our findings suggest that 69% of exergames papers citing this study misrepresent the findings, demonstrating a systematic failure of scholarship in exergames research. We argue that exergaming research should cease focusing on games as treatment for obesity, and that HCI publications should demand more critical and scholarly engagement with research from outside HCI.en
dc.description.sponsorshipLeverhulme Trust (ECF/2012-677); Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/M000877/1).en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.urihttp://chi2017.acm.org/en
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationMarshall, J. and Linehan, C. (2017) 'Misrepresentation of health research in exertion games literature', Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, Colorado, USA, 6 - 11 May. doi:10.1145/3025453.3025691en
dc.identifier.doi10.1145/3025453.3025691
dc.identifier.endpage4910en
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4503-4655-9
dc.identifier.startpage4899en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/6501
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)en
dc.relation.ispartofACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017)
dc.relation.urihttp://chi2017.acm.org/proceedings.html
dc.rights© 2017, the Authors. Publication rights licensed to ACM. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025691en
dc.subjectExertionen
dc.subjectGamesen
dc.subjectExertion gamesen
dc.subjectHealthen
dc.subjectObesityen
dc.titleMisrepresentation of health research in exertion games literatureen
dc.typeConference itemen
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