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- State of the Art in Game Research & Design and Playful Interaction in the domain of Health and Health Care, from the gaming community as well as from the health practitioners.
- Full scope including, design, development, business
- Includes set of prototypes to be downloaded
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (20 papers)
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Front Matter
About this book
Founded in 2004, the Games for Health Project supports community, knowledge and business development efforts to use cutting-edge games and game technologies to improve health and health care. The Games for Health Conference brings together researchers, medical professionals and game developers to share information about the impact of games, playful interaction and game technologies on health, health care and policy. Over two days, more than 400 attendees participate in over 60 sessions provided by an international array of 80+ speakers, cutting across a wide range of activities in health and health care. Topics include exergaming, physical therapy, disease management, health behavior change, biofeedback, rehab, epidemiology, training, cognitive health, nutrition and health education.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Ben Schouten
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Zug, Switzerland
Stephen Fedtke
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Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Marlies Schijven
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Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mirjam Vosmeer
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Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Alex Gekker
About the editors
Prof. Dr. Ben Schouten BA is full professor in Playful Interaction at Eindhoven University of Technology, as well as associate professor Play & Game Design at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. He is a Member of the Dutch Games Association and advisor for the European Commission.
Dr. Marlies P. Schijven is a surgeon at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, and a renowned researcher in the field of Virtual Reality applications for healthcare, Simulation and Serious Gaming.
Dr. Mirjam Vosmeer is a member of the Games & Play department, at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. She has a PhD in communication science and an academic background in game studies, psychology, popular culture and media entertainment. Her further professional background includes television production, scriptwriting, journalism and publishing.
Dr. Stephen Fedtke is an IT specialist and highly recognized book author and editor. His focus is on the interdisciplinary application of information and media technologies, such as IT security, health and entertainment.
Alex Gekker is a doctoral candidate at Utrecht University and member of the Games for Health Europe's founding team. His research focuses on playful everyday interactions in the digital maps domain.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Games for Health 2014
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the 4th conference on gaming and playful interaction in healthcare
Editors: Ben Schouten, Stephen Fedtke, Marlies Schijven, Mirjam Vosmeer, Alex Gekker
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-07141-7
Publisher: Springer Vieweg Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-658-07140-0Published: 10 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-14089-2Published: 22 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-07141-7Published: 28 October 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 153
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Health Informatics, Computers and Education, Media Research, Literacy