Brains & Brawn: A Strategy Card Game for Muscle-Strengthening Exercises
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Abstract
Participation rates in muscle-strengthening programs are low. Exergames show promise in encouraging people to exercise, but it is difficult to build compelling games around resistance training. Games involve players making meaningful choices, but workout programs are rigidly structured, making it difficult to find opportunities for such choices. As such, most muscle-strengthening exergames have chosen between engaging gameplay and high quality exercise. To solve this issue, we have developed a muscle-strengthening card game -- Brains & Brawn -- that exploits and enhances player agency.
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October 2015
852 pages
ISBN:9781450334662
DOI:10.1145/2793107
- General Chairs:
- Anna L. Cox,
- Paul Cairns,
- Program Chairs:
- Regina Bernhaupt,
- Lennart Nacke
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Published: 05 October 2015
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CHI PLAY '15: The annual symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
October 5 - 7, 2015
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