Serious Games: A Concise Overview on What They Are and Their Potential Applications to Healthcare

Guido Giunti; Analía Baum; Diego Giunta; Fernando Plazzotta; Sonia Benitez; Adrián Gómez; Daniel Luna; Fernan González Bernaldo De Quiros

doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-564-7-386

Serious Games: A Concise Overview on What They Are and Their Potential Applications to Healthcare

Guido Giunti^*, Analía Baum, Diego Giunta, Fernando Plazzotta, Sonia Benitez, Adrián Gómez, Daniel Luna, Fernan González Bernaldo De Quiros

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Applied Ergonomics and Design

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Abstract

Younger generations are extensive users of digital devices; these technologies have always existed and have always been a part of their lives. Video games are a big part of their digital experience. User-centered design is an approach to designing systems informed by scientific knowledge of how people think, act, and coordinate to accomplish their goals. There is an emerging field of intervention research looking into using these techniques to produce video games that can be applied to healthcare. Games with the purpose of improving an individual's knowledge, skills, or attitudes in the 'real' world are called 'Serious Games'. Before doctors and patients can consider using Serious Games as a useful solution for a health care-related problem, it is important that they first are aware of them, have a basic understanding of what they are, and what, if any, claims on their effectiveness exist. In order to bridge that gap, we have produced this concise overview to introduce physicians to the subject at hand.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	MEDINFO 2015
Subtitle of host publication	eHealth-Enabled Health - Proceedings of the 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics
Editors	Andrew Georgiou, Indra Neil Sarkar, Paulo Mazzoncini de Azevedo Marques
Publisher	IOS Press
Pages	386-390
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781614995630
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-564-7-386
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics, MEDINFO 2015 - Sao Paulo, Brazil Duration: 19 Aug 2015 → 23 Aug 2015

Publication series

Name	Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume	216
ISSN (Print)	0926-9630
ISSN (Electronic)	1879-8365

Conference

Conference	15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics, MEDINFO 2015
Country/Territory	Brazil
City	Sao Paulo
Period	19/08/15 → 23/08/15

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© 2015 IMIA and IOS Press.

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Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

Keywords

behavioral health
games for health
medical education
mhealth
patient education
Serious games
user-centered design

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Giunti, G., Baum, A., Giunta, D., Plazzotta, F., Benitez, S., Gómez, A., Luna, D., & González Bernaldo De Quiros, F. (2015). Serious Games: A Concise Overview on What They Are and Their Potential Applications to Healthcare. In A. Georgiou, I. N. Sarkar, & P. M. de Azevedo Marques (Eds.), MEDINFO 2015: eHealth-Enabled Health - Proceedings of the 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics (pp. 386-390). (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics; Vol. 216). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-564-7-386

Giunti, Guido ; Baum, Analía ; Giunta, Diego ; Plazzotta, Fernando ; Benitez, Sonia ; Gómez, Adrián ; Luna, Daniel ; González Bernaldo De Quiros, Fernan. / Serious Games : A Concise Overview on What They Are and Their Potential Applications to Healthcare. MEDINFO 2015: eHealth-Enabled Health - Proceedings of the 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics. editor / Andrew Georgiou ; Indra Neil Sarkar ; Paulo Mazzoncini de Azevedo Marques. IOS Press, 2015. pp. 386-390 (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics).

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