Research Resources

Health Games Research gathers and shares information related to the research and design of health games. Following are a few resources, and there are more in the Health Games Research searchable database, which will launch in December 2009.

Research Presentations

• Video of Debra Lieberman's presentation about health games, given at the annual meeting of Dust or Magic: Children's New Media Design Institute, Lambertville, NJ, November 2008  (Scroll to the second video on the page.)  http://dustormagic.wikispaces.com/2008+Videos

Bibliographies

• HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) bibliography of resources with links http://hcibib.org/
• Journal of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) bibliography with links to all articles published in the journal http://projects.csail.mit.edu/jacm/

Online Resources

• CHI, a special interest group of the ACM on computer-human interaction
• CHI-Kids listserv, an online discussion group for designers, producers, researchers, and practitioners of interactive media for children and adolescents
• Games for Health discussion listserv, an online discussion group for people interested in games applied to health and health care
• healthGAMERS, an online newsletter from Archimage covering a range of topics in the health games field
• Water Cooler Games, the archives of a 2003-2009 blog about video game theory, criticism, and design, which often covered health games in addition to the broader category of serious games

Research Methods and Measures

• Measures & Surveys to Download, a list of downloadable research measures and survey instruments related to physical activity, diet, and quality of life research, compiled by Jim Sallis, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University