Blackgammon: A Grounded Participatory Design of a Preconception Health Promotion ‘Alternate Reality Game’ for Adolescent Indigenous Australian Women

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2013-April, Issue , 2013, Pages 1949-1952

  Muscat, Melody ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alternate game reality; Grounded theory; Indigenous Australians; Participatory design; Preconception health promotion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ALTERNATE GAME REALITY; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH PROMOTION; INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN;

HEALTH;

EID: 84908109014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2468356.2468708     Document Type: Conference Paper

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