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Adopting Best Practices from the Games Industry in Development of Serious Games for Health

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Richard Davison,

Graham MorganAuthors Info & Claims

DH '15: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Digital Health 2015

Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/2750511.2750513

Published: 18 May 2015 Publication History

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We describe how developers with extensive experience in the entertainment video game industry approach the creation of rehabilitative games. A key element a game for health shares with a game from the entertainment industry is the ability to engage over long periods of time: the longer a commercial game engages the more popular it becomes, improving its revenue; the longer a game for health is played the more extensive an intervention, improving patient outcomes. As such, having worked on a number of successful titles for over twenty years we explored transferring player engagement techniques in games for entertainment over to games for health. This we achieved in a series of rehabilitative games for different patient conditions and demographics. We present our findings as a number of design and implementation practises that bring a heightened sense of engagement and replay value to games for patients that do not distract from the main health benefit.

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Adopting Best Practices from the Games Industry in Development of Serious Games for Health
1. Applied computing
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    1. Consumer health
    2. Health informatics

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DH '15: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Digital Health 2015

May 2015

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DOI:10.1145/2750511

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