Tag Archives: serious gaming

SDT and games

Posted on October 31, 2024 by Priscilla

In very broad terms two types of motivations are often distinguished: external or internal aka extrinsic or intrinsic motivation. They are the things you do because of some outside compelling reason like rewards or threats versus things you start doing … Continue reading →

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Neem serious games ook echt serieus

Posted on February 22, 2024 by Priscilla

Met Marjolein van Trigt sprak ik voor Binnenlands Bestuur over het gebruik van serious games door gemeentes en een aantal voorbeelden. “Een serious game kan een effectief middel zijn om bijvoorbeeld bewustwording te creëren over cyberdreiging of zwerfafval. Het laten ontwikkelen van … Continue reading →

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Games for Health

Posted on May 10, 2021 by Priscilla

Health science has been embracing gaming as a meaningful way to communicate, educate, and as a mechanism to deliver treatment [1,2]. There has been a growing interest in both serious games for health and gamified health interventions [3], especially those … Continue reading →

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Before the paper Effect of a Health Game Prompt

Posted on April 20, 2021 by Priscilla

There are two stories here. One is the story of the content of the paper and this is pretty straight forward. It started reading a paper and wondering about something: “…reading the work of Brooks, it seemed to me that … Continue reading →

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A Framework for developing Serious Games for Health

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Priscilla

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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PhD Gaming to cope

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Priscilla

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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