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Talk About Sex: Designing Games to Facilitate Healthy Discussions around Sex

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Matthew Wood,

Gavin Wood,

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CHI PLAY '15: Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2793107.2810270

Published: 05 October 2015 Publication History

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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.

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Talk About Sex: Designing Games to Facilitate Healthy Discussions around Sex
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CHI PLAY '15: Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

October 2015

852 pages

ISBN:9781450334662

DOI:10.1145/2793107

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Anna L. Cox
University College London, UK
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Paul Cairns
University of York, UK
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IRIT, France
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Lennart Nacke
University of Waterloo, Canada

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