TEN : With Added Focus

In two years The Exergame Network has grown to be the largest and most effective independent exergaming advocacy. TEN is now looking to add specialist focus for the areas that need it, and in true TEN style, it is the members that will define this direction.

Each focus stream will require a leading officer and a deputy, responsible for bringing individual focus to the group as a whole and being the primary TEN specialist spokesperson in that area.

Suggestions so far for focus areas are based on profession, exergaming application, by region and exergaming beneficiaries. Here are some examples to start thinking about;

Interest Groups

Healthcare Professionals

Teachers

Youth Workers

Students & Researchers

Manufacturers & Distributors

Tournament Providers

etc

Application Areas

Schools

Clubs and Gyms

Group Fitness

Competition Groups

Consumers & Home exergaming

etc

Exergaming Regions

USA West

USA Central

USA East

Asia

Europe

South America

etc

Demographics of Exergaming

Children

Adults

Weight Loss Patients

People with Disabilities

Disadvantaged Youth

etc

There is a Skype call on Saturday (see http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=207878292563966&index=1) where we will start the discussion. Which of the above groupings make most sense, or is there another way to have speciality? How would a grouping be split, and who would lead each area? Please join in if you can and vote for the future of TEN.

On the call you will also find out more about TEN's Rating System for exergames, and the presentation session at Games for Health from TEN pioneers Richard Coshott, Lisa Witherspoon Hansen and Brett Young! For more on this event see http://www.gamesforhealth.org/index.php/conference/sessions/the-exergame-network-a-report-on-our-progress