TEN at Games for Health 2011 Exergaming Track

Games for Health is always the high point of the exergaming calendar and 2011 in Boston was no exception. The Active Gaming & Exergmaing Track was full of exciting presentations, panels and sessions, most of which featured TEN members.

The Exergame Network presentation has been captured on UStream by Stephen Yang of SUNY Cortland and ExergameLab fame. Here is the TEN presentation with Richard Coshott, Lisa Witherspoon and Brett Young. If you look carefully, you will also spot a Ninja in the build up! Skip ahead to 10 minutes in to see the presentation.



The slides that accompany this video can be found on slideshare, right here...

The Exergame Network - Report on our Progress

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The Exergame Network is holding a Skype Call this Friday (May 27th) at 11pm GMT, see our Facebook event for more details and check out the event time in your timezone here. In this call we'll be reflecting on Games for Health and attempting a TEN first - to have the first Skype call around the world, from Hawaii, through West and East coast America, Europe, Hong Kong back to the other side of the world in Australia! Don't miss it!

The Exergame Network - Report on our Progress

The Exergame Network - Report on our Progress

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10% Registration Discount for Games for Health Conference 2011

The 7th Annual Games for Health Conference is gearing up!

On May 18-19 join hundreds of game developers, health professionals, and leading researchers to discover, brainstorm, and debate how videogame and videogames technologies can work to improve health & healthcare.

REGISTER TODAY! http://www.regonline.com/gbew2011 Enter BOST11 and get 10% off any registration! A few highlights among the 60+ sessions include:

Day 1 Keynote: "Positive Psychology>Positive Computing>Positive Videogames" by Dr. Martin Seligman

Day 2 Keynote: "The Last Mile Doesn't Have to be the Hardest: Solving Problems Between Games and Health" by Dr. Roni Zeiger of Google

A Featured Talk, "Gaming Your Way to a Healthier Lifestyle" by Shellie Pfohl, Executive Director, The President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition

A games for health briefing by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) The detailed findings from "Who Plays for Their Health? Results from Our New Nationwide Survey of Video Game Usage" by Debra Lieberman of Health Games Research

GameShare - A special project developed with Ben Heck!

To see the latest scheduled sessions please visit: http://www.gamesforhealth.org/index.php/conferences/gfh-2011/sched201-block/

For up-to-date conference information please visit: http://www.gamesforhealth.org/index.php/conferences/gfh-2011/

THREE DAYS OF EVENTS...

May 17 Pre-conference Events & Workshops

* Out & About II : Mobile Serious Games http://bit.ly/oaa2011

* Ludica Medica I : Game-based Medical Modeling, Simulation & Education http://bit.ly/lmedica

* Enabled Play : 4th Annual Games Accessibility Day http://bit.ly/enabledplay

May 18-19 7th Annual Games for Health Conference Five Tracks of Content:

* Open Content Tracks

* Exergaming & Active Gaming

* Congitive & Emotional Health

* Sensorimotor Rehab

* Nutrition & Games

* Social Games & Virtual Worlds

Also make sure you are at The Exergame Network session while you are there! This session will unveil the evolution of The Exergame Network (TEN), the first ever international exergame advocacy, that was started in June 2008.

Learn about how TEN grew using social media sites from a simple discussion group on the professional social media site LinkedIn into a diverse resource and advocacy that has the attention of the world's online press.

We will discuss the various projects undertaken by the membership, i...ncluding a unique rating system for consumer exergames, worldwide exergame "Skype" conference calls and the active gaming Awards. The Exergame Network's mission statement and advocacy methods will be shown, including both the successes and the failures that challenge the free group.

Founding members of TEN will represent the group, sharing insight into the methods of collaboration and highlight the spirit of the exergaming community that sustain the group from their passion and freely donated time.

Speakers for TEN: Richard Coshott, Lisa Witherspoon and Brett Young

The session can be found on the Games For Health website at http://www.gamesforhealth.org/index.php/conference/sessions/the-exergame-network-a-report-on-our-progress

Are YOU going to Games for Health next month???

The 7th Annual Games for Health Conference is coming this May 17-19 in Boston, MA. The event which brings together a variety of researchers, game developers, and health professionals to review, brainstorm, and collaborate on how videogames, and videogame technologies are finding new roles in health & healthcare.

There are major tracks on exergaming, sensorimotor rehab, nutrition games, medical training, and cognitive & emotional health. Pre-conference events focus on mobile games, game accessibility, and medical modeling & simulation.

The opening keynote is Dr. Martin Seligman, widely known as the father of positive psychology. He will deliver a speech titled Positive Psychology>Positive Computing>Positive Videogames.

If you do anything in this space, then you can't miss this conference!

If you're interested in this further you can click the following link to read more on the Games for Health website: http://bit.ly/gfh2011