Serious Games for Sexual Health.

نویسندگان

  • Ross Shegog
  • Katherine Brown
  • Sheana Bull
  • John L Christensen
  • Kimberly Hieftje
  • Kristen N Jozkowski
  • Michele L Ybarra
چکیده

Program developers and researchers in the sexual health domain have increasingly embraced technological trends as they emerge. With the emergence of serious game applications to impact health behaviors, a natural step for research enquiry will be the investigation of serious games for sexual health education. We invited a panel of sexual health researchers who are working at the intersection of sexual health behavior change and technology applications to comment on the place of serious games in furthering the field of sexual health. The panel grappled with six questions.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Games for health journal

دوره 4 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015