This document discusses the history and use of video games and gamification in healthcare education and prevention. It notes some key games and projects created between 1995 and 2012 for healthcare purposes. It also discusses how self-tracking using digital technologies like cameras, GPS, and sensors can enable new forms of prevention. The document presents gamification as using game mechanics to engage audiences and solve problems.

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Video games and gamification for
healthcare education and prevetion

3. Nurse

4. Education
Prevention
Nurse

5. Education

6. EducationNurse

7. A bit of history on gaming in healthcare

12. 1995
Games created for healthcare

13. 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfPBGNdcTNo

14. 2008

15. 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IVc5KKldTY

16. 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXTer-ZltsI&feature=player_embedded

17. 352 million potencial players around the world
(not counting Asia)

18. WoW Diabetes Project

20. The Team
Homero Rivas – Doctor and professor
Stephen Jacobs – Video games professor
Zachary Hoefler - Programmer
Anna Sort – Nurse and Associate Professor

21. PreventionNurse

22. Self-tracking and Gamification
Gamification is the use
of game thinking &
game mechanics in
order to engage
audiences and solve
problems

23. Self-tracking
Prevention in the digital era

24. digital
camera accelerometer
GPS
touchscreen
wifi
automated
voice
assistant
The possibilities on the palm of
our hand…

25. digital
camera
GPS
touchscreen wifi
automated
voice
assistant
accelerometer

26. GPS
touchscreen wifi
automated
voice
assistant
digital
camera
accelerometer

27. digital
camera
GPS
touchscreen wifi
automated
voice
assistant
accelerometer

28. digital
camera
GPS
touchscreen wifi
automated
voice
assistant
accelerometer

29. digital
camera
GPS
touchscreen wifi
automated
voice
assistant
accelerometer

30. digital
camera
GPS
touchscreen wifi
automated
voice
assistant
accelerometer

31. digital
camera
GPS
touchscreen wifi
automated
voice
assistant
accelerometer

32. GPS
https://itunes.apple.com/
touchscreen wifi
automated
voice
assistant
digital
camera
accelerometer

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