Nyberg: PlayFoward

(WTNH) -- An iPad game is underdevelopment at Yale that will hopefully work to help prevent HIV infection in young people.
      
Scientists want to engage kids between the ages of 11 to 14 to play the game called PlayFoward so they'll learn to make good choices in life and avoid risky behaviors.
    
Lynn Fiellin explains scientists and commercial game developers are getting local kids involved to help them make this game.

"What's interesting about this is that you have New Haven children helping you to develop this so that you can get it into the hands of kids all over the place so that they will actually engage in this game and learn something and you have to make it very cool, right and that's why you have the kids involved, right and that kids whether they're inner city or the suburbs or the countryside or whatever a lot of these games transcend, it's not just about inner city kids, but the fact that we really wanted to focus this on Elm City it has more of an urban flair, so what has been developed with kids do they tell you color scheme, what do they tell you when you say we want you to get involved, everything, the bottom line is what we're hoping to do is create behavior change, so this is not just an education game this is really a game that we're hoping will teach these kids skills that they can learn in the game that then translate to real life."