Applying game-like elements in city environments, new ways for health promotion.

1. GAMIFYING HEALTHY AND SMART CITIES
Arto Holopainen
Senior Advisor
Technology and Business Foresight
Kuopio Innovation Ltd.
President
Finnish Society of Telemedicine and eHealth
Member of the board, Liason – International and Regulatory Affairs
FiHTA – Health Finland
Mindtrek
Tampere 23/SEP/2015

2. Homo Ludens, “Playing man”

3. A healthy city is conscious of
health and striving to
improve it
Source: WHO European Healthy Cities network

4. A smart city is a place where services
are made more efficient with the use
of digital technologies, for the
benefit inhabitants and businesses
Source: European Comission Digital Agenda for Europe, Digital Society

5. “The cities of the future will be self-aware, much
like a being. These cities will be able to
reconfigure themselves, based on what’s
happening, and what might happen, in the
immediate future.”
Roberto Saracco, Chair of IEEE's (Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers) Future Directions Committee

6. Source: Forbes, 5/MAR/2014: “How To Solve Your Biggest Marketing Problems With Gamification”

7. Source: Gartner's 2014 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
Gartner’s 2011 emerging technologies Hype Cycle
Gamification
IoT

8. Source: Gartner's 2014 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
Gartner’s 2012 emerging technologies Hype Cycle
Gamification
Big Data
IoT

9. Source: Gartner's 2014 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
Gartner’s 2013 emerging technologies Hype Cycle
Gamification
mHealth Apps
Big Data
IoT

10. Source: Gartner's 2014 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
Gartner’s 2014 emerging technologies Hype Cycle
Gamification
mHealth Apps
IoT
Big Data

11. Finland Global Radical technologies that might change the world
1 2 Open data and big data
2 3 Freely organizing remote work and organizations that form on the Internet
3 4 Glasses of augmented reality
4 6 Gamification
5 1 Extremely dense processors that take quantum phenomena into account
6 5 Schools in the cloud
7 10 Self-driving car
8 7 Biochips and biosensors able to diagnose cheaply and rapidly diseases
9 9 3D printing of goods
10 8 Cloud computing
Source: Publication of the committee for the future, Finland 11/2014

12. Homo Ludens, “Playing man”

13. Games
Specific goal –
sense of purpose
Gameplay - rules to
define boundaries
Interaction -
feedback system to
follow progress
Challenge –
stimulate creativity
Can incorporate
behavioral (health)
change procedures

14. • Usability
• User-Centered Design
• User Experience Design
Picture: www.studioaum.in

15. More efficient, illustrative
and participatory
development processes

16. Strategic Experimentation
• Light, agile and inexpensive
• Ways to solve problems
• Testing new approaches NOW

17. Uncertainty

18. Wooden rowing boat
Ground
level
Underground
Parking hall
Source: Savon Sanomat
5.12.2013

19. YLE News, East-Finland 24th June 2015
Minister ice fishing in the middle of Kuopio marketplace
Source: YLE News, East-Finland 24th June 2015

20. Make health fun!
Source: Tweet #whokuopio by @JyriWuorisalo 25.6.2015

21. Source: www.fineduvr.fi
From teaching to learning

22. Make information available
as open data

23. Meaningful use of
open data

24. Talking trashbin, Helsinki
Source: Puhuva Roskis

25. Valteri Centre for Learning and Consulting
Valteri School, Mäntykangas

26. Innovation technology
“Womb-to-tomb”

27. Public-Private-Partnership (PPP)
Case Kuopio - Strategic Experimentation
eService for
anticoagulation
management
eBooking
eConsultation
Health Account
Secure
messaging
Medication
assessment
New
approaches
for nutrition
coaching
Electronic
maternity card
Games for
Health
solutions
20152014

28. 6 338
1 925
1 248
3 717
3 455 94 606
50km

29. CHALLENGE
2015
eHealth
Innovations
Gamification
Wild
cards
2
categories
Real
needs
Start
2-JUN-15
www.gamesforhealthchallenge.fi
#gfhfinlandchallenge

30. Information systems
support my work
eServices are part
of my work
Information
helps my work
I’m working with
information security
Life management
Freedom of choice
My data
Citizen
Doing it myself
Professional
Smart systems for
capable users
Source: Information to support well-being and service renewal. eHealth and eSocial strategy 2020. Publications of the MSAH 2015

32. THANK YOU!
arto.holopainen(at)kuopioinnovation.fi
@ArtoHolopainen
www.kuopioinnovation.fi