What is it about?
This pictorial explores the design of playful visualisations of factors that affect human gut health through a board game and provides strategies for the design of playful technologies to communicate about complex science topics within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
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Why is it important?
Playful visualisations may help in building closer relationships between us and our understanding of the gut processes. This in turn can enable people to make gut-friendly decisions with respect to diet, environment and lifestyle factors that influence the quality of their health and well-being. Particularly, people can bring their attention to the microscopic interactions and the real-world scenarios that shape their experiences, which they can learn through tangible playful visualisations supported by the game components.
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This article was produced by a multidisciplinary team spanning across the disciplines of Interaction & Game design; Nutrition & Dietetics; Product Design & Sociology. I hope this article invites people to imagine more creative ways of depicting science information so as to make it relatable and approachable to the larger population.
Nandini Pasumarthy
RMIT University
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This page is a summary of: Gooey Gut Trail :Demystifying Human Gut Health Through a Board Game, June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3450741.3465390.
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