Kajaani UAS has integrated games development into healthcare. This presentation displays two examples how gamification can improve healtcare solutions: My Life is a life management game targeted to youth. Stroke Kinect is a game to rehabilitate stroke patients.

1. Kajaani University of Applied Sciences
Serious Games
Games & Health Care
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2. Games & Health care at KUAS
• My Life - Game Technology supporting youth life
management skills
• Stroke Kinect – rehabilation for stroke patients
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3. GAME TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTING
YOUTH LIFE MANAGEMENT SKILLS
Ravelin Teija, (DHS), Senior Lecturer, Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, Field of Social Services,
Health and Sports,
Heikkinen Henri, science undergraduate, untenured teacher, Kajaanin University of Applied Sciences,
School of Engineering
Juntunen Matti, registered nurse, Joint Municipal Authority of the Kainuu region
Koukkari Janne, registered nurse (UAS), Joint Municipal Authority of the Kainuu region
Voutilainen Veli- Matti, registered nurse (UAS), Joint Municipal Authority of the Kainuu region
Haataja Marja-Liisa, (MHS), Ward Manager, Joint Municipal Authority of the Kainuu region
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4. The aim
• was to develop a demo version of a network
game to support the life management skills of 16
– 19 year old young people
• and to plan an international follow-up scheme to
complete the game.
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5. During the pilot stage:
• Central youth life management problems have been surveyed and the
themes selected for the content of the game were: mental health,
intoxicants, becoming independent and choices in everyday life.
• Mental health professionals were involved in the survey and planning of
content and students of Kajaani University of Applied Sciences will be
responsible for developing the game.
• A demo version of the game, “Home” has been tested in Kainuu and
Southern Finland within the area of youth psychiatric treatment and in
different educational institutions in late 2012.
• Nursing students specialising in mental health work have conducted
theoretical and empirical background surveys as their Bachelor’s thesis for
the purposes of developing the final game as a whole.
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6. My Life game
• The whole game consists of fields located in different environments
(home, schools, parties) where the young people must solve
different situation based life-related problems/situations
• The player can select different avatars
• The player makes choices which affect life as the game progresses,
e.g. new dialogue opportunities come up when the player receives
good karma points
• The game play time for one field is about 15 minutes
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7. Stroke rehabilitation game using Kinect
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t9DPq2YEmU
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Physiotherapist/ Doctor
makes new rehabilitation
program
Patient logs into web-
page and opens his/her
personal rehabilitation
program
Rehabilitation is fun
game – depending on
age and disability of
patient
All necessary game data
is saved to ‘Cloud
Services’
Physiotherapist/ Doctor
has a raport view
When patient visits
physiotherapist/ doctor,
focus is on patient

9. Search for proposals and partners
• Searching for proposals to gamify healthcare solutions
• Looking for international partners for
• Networking
• Business development possibilities
• Game Development knowledge transfer
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