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Tag Archives: HEALTH
A Framework for developing Serious Games for Health
The paper Developing Theory-Driven, Evidence-Based Serious Games for Health: Framework Based on Research Community Insights by Verschueren and colleagues provides a well-researched framework for developing any serious game and especially one for health/wellbeing purposes. Their research into efficacy and best-practices … Continue reading
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Tagged design, development, Game, HEALTH, Research, serious gaming
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PhD Gaming to cope
Gaming has promise. In order to fulfil its didactic promise we need to understand exactly what goes on while people are ‘in game’ and how this joyful experience can be used to facilitate positive behaviours – such as functional coping … Continue reading
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Tagged Game, HEALTH, psychology, Research, Science, serious gaming
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A tale of two papers
Writing, submitting and publishing a paper contains the best of times and the worst of times. There is great pleasure in getting your thoughts down on paper, hammering on them with earlier research and the critical eyes of all the … Continue reading
Posted in Perfectly Flawed
Tagged HEALTH, play, psychology, Research, serious gaming
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Rehabilitation thinking for games in health
Designing and researching games in health has underlayers of models we (unwittingly) hold on what rehabilitation should be – and held within this our concepts of disability – driving our design decisions or the questions we ask. Rehabilitation: all measures … Continue reading
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Tagged design, Game, HEALTH, Philosophy
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Does a game prompt make us excited? Small online experiment
Finally online at ResearchGate – my presentation during Berlin Playweek 2016 at the Researching Games Barcamp The effect of a Game Prompt on Self-Efficacy concering problem solving challenges of living with Diabetes type II. Initial results, would love to … Continue reading
Barriers to health appeals
This is my summary/translation of the article Abwehrreaktionen auf Gesundheitsappelle: Forschungsstand und Praxisempfehlungen by Hastall, 2012. Against threatening or disturbing messages we have defensive processes, in order not to get thrown into a (unhealthy) state of frenzy every time we encounter one. … Continue reading