Talk about sex: Designing games to acilitate healthy discussions around sex

Wood, Matthew; Wood, Gavin; Balaam, Madeline

Abstract

We report on the design of Talk About Sex, a multiplayer mobile phone game designed for young people to facilitate and enable discussions around the subjects of sex, intimacy and relationships. We discuss how we used 'sex as a framing for design', combining concepts of consent, subtlety, intimacy and trust to develop a sensitive yet dynamic game design.

Citation

Wood, M., Wood, G., & Balaam, M. (2015). Talk about sex: Designing games to acilitate healthy discussions around sex. In CHI PLAY '15: Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (795-798). https://doi.org/10.1145/2793107.2810270

• Conference Name: Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
• Conference Location: London, United Kingdom
• Start Date: Oct 5, 2015
• End Date: Oct 7, 2015
• Acceptance Date: Oct 5, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Oct 1, 2015
• Publication Date: Oct 31, 2015
• Deposit Date: Mar 12, 2020
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 795-798
• Book Title: CHI PLAY '15: Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
• ISBN: 9781450334662
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2793107.2810270
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5667420