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Spotlight on Story Narrative in Health Games: An interview with Amy Shirong Lu, PhD 30 Jun 2012 | 02:40 am
As researchers to strive to discover the best way to effect positive health behavior changes using video games, a recent spotlight has been shining on the use of story narrative. One of the leading re...
Exergames: Free Play or Controlled Therapy? 7 Apr 2012 | 02:50 am
Last month a Baylor Children’s Nutrition Research team led by pediatrician, Tom Baranowski, PhD, published a paper in the journal, Pediatrics, about the effects of naturalistic video game play on the ...
Game On! (at the White House) 14 Feb 2012 | 04:36 am
You know you must be doing something interesting when you are invited to the White House. That mark of distinction for about thirty invited video game researchers, designers and developers was a Febru...
Take the Health Challenge 20 Dec 2011 | 11:05 am
Have you taken the challenge yet? “What challenge?”, you ask. The Health 2.0 Developer Challenge or those on Challenge Post. These sites take advantage of the recent US initiative to make health data...
Future of Healthcare 1 Nov 2011 | 04:27 am
containers that ring, play music and send emails to remind people to take sixteen different medications when loaded only once in two or three months. Another medication lid glows when it is time to ta...
Games for Health – Europe 4 Oct 2011 | 08:35 am
Games for Health Project originated in the United States in 2004. Ben Sawyer was instrumental in its foundation and development into the force that it is today. It’s annual meeting draws hundreds of...
Avatar Advantage 13 Sep 2011 | 01:37 am
Nick Yee, PhD, a research scientist at the PARC (the Palo Alto Research Center) has published studies that show how people’s behaviors change when they use avatars. One study notes how players engage ...
New Journal Gets in the Game 4 Aug 2011 | 03:19 am
Strong research is the foundation of the health professions, and health game development is no different. When a person’s health is being manipulated, then people expect the method or product to be w...
Next Midwestern Conference on Health Games announced. 13 May 2011 | 08:15 am
Organized by the the IU School of Informatics at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), the 2nd annual Midwestern Conference on Health Games conference will be held in Indianapolis...
Microsoft Kinect in Medicine 29 Apr 2011 | 07:43 am
Potential for healthcare use. Back in 2010 we were introduced to the “Wii-killer,” aka the Kinect for Xbox 360. Microsoft’s initial lineup of exergames revealed great health gaming potential. Others...
