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Date posted: 04/08/2007 August 23 in Seattle the day before the Penny Arcade Expo Games for Health Day Seattle runs from 9am-7pm including a networking reception and is located at the Hotel Deca (4507 Brooklyn Avenue, NE). Games for Health Day is organized by the Games for Health Project (www.gamesforhealth.org) which is sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Our Current Schedule is as follows: 9:00am Ben Sawyer : Welcome & Why Games for Health? The basics of the field of games for health and what it may offer health & healthcare 9:30am West Virginia Games for Health Team : Statewide DDR Details on the research behind and rollout of a unique statewide campaign to encourage active lifestyles 10:15am 15 Minute Break 10:30am Casual Games : Serious Health? (PopCap Games) What does the leader in casual gaming have to say about the intersection of games and health? 11:30am 15 Minute Break 11:45am Games in Hospitals : Ryan Sharpe of GetWellGamers An expert in how games can be used for hospital child-life scenarios shares his expertise 12:30pm Lunch w/demos During lunch get hands on time with a half-dozen or more health oriented game demos. 2:00pm Yasmin Kafai : Why Whypox Matters Research results on how online world Whyville teaches kids how viruses and vaccines work 2:30pm Judy Shasek : Grassroots Exergaming What are the strategies for enabling exergaming in schools, local organizations, and in general at the grassroots level? The leader of Generation Fit shares a wealth of basic how-to's and results. 3:00pm 15 Minute Break 3:15pm Alan Au : Games for Health Japan - More then BrainAge Japan's game community has produced a number of projects and products related to health & wellness. Beyond the BrainAge phenomenon lies exciting projects and software you've never heard about until now. 4:00pm Dominec Greco: Biofeedback & Videogames BioFeedback systems offer opportunities to improve therapy for ADHD and other cognitive and stress-related disorders as well as new ways to look at training effectiveness. A leading expert in brainwave-based biofeedback systems discusses their health specific applications. 4:45pm Ben Sawyer : Turning Health in Games into Health With Games Games have featured health-related content since the earliest days of gaming and over time there have been a number of interesting elements to how health is portrayed in games. By understanding this better we can look forward to how health might be further improved through games and elements of everyday games. 5:30pm End with Reception Please join us for a casual after-meeting mixer See the full Story via external site: www.gamesforhealth.org Most recent stories in this category (Conferences): 03/03/2017: ICME 2017 - Large Scale 3D Human Activity Analysis |
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