SGSC 2013 Keynote Singapore - The Future of Serious Games and Immersive Technologies
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Immersive technologies, serious games, and gamification will play a vital role in addressing important challenges in business and society. Digital technologies have changed society from hierarchical and structured to networked and asymmetric, giving individuals unprecedented choice and power. Society now faces challenges like an aging population and obesity. Serious games and simulations can help train staff, encourage healthy behaviors, and provide personalized and adaptive learning. They may help transform society by reconnecting choice and consequence through visualizing sensor data and gameplay. This could help create more sustainable solutions for issues like supporting an aging population.
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SGSC 2013 Keynote Singapore - The Future of Serious Games and Immersive Technologies
- 1. The Future of Serious Games and Immersive Technologies Singapore SGSC 2013
- 2. Today's Key Message Immersive Technologies, Serious Games and "Gamification" are likely to play a vital role in addressing some of the most important challenges in business and society.
- 3. Can you imagine a world without computers, phones and cars ?
- 4. The Way we Were Teachers transferred knowledge We knew all our neighbours We rarely travelled outside our community Banks were banks, Grocers were grocers We built a career in the same company We dated and married within our community Individual Choice and Power was limited
- 5. Games and Simulations helped shaped our development and interests
- 6. Society was Hierarchical, Structured and Regulated - Knowledge was Power
- 7. Knowledge Professionals with years of training were the sole service providers in education, health, law........
- 9. From search engines and simple quizzes and decision tree games
- 10. To advanced realistic simulations
- 11. Knowledge and skills became instantly accessible 24/7
- 12. The Way we Are Teachers are coaches and mentors We know none of our neighbours We travel and live outside our community Record companies become airlines, Grocers become banks We change jobs and companies often We date via the Internet and don't marry Individual Choice and Power is unlimited
- 13. Today's Society is Networked and Asymmetric
- 14. Now we have personal agents like this ...
- 16. Science fiction soon becomes reality
- 17. Delivering immersive experiences aids learning
- 18. The Networked Society The unprecedented levels of choice and power delivered to every citizen by technology makes us the most connected society in history yet there is a disconnect between choice and consequence, power and accountability and rights and responsibilities. It is this disconnect which creates many of the challenges we face
- 19. Society faces many challenges e.g Obesity and Ageing Society
- 20. Games and Simulations train, orientate and assess staff
- 21. Casual games can help develop or maintain cognitive skills and mental agility
- 22. They also try to encourage behavioural change
- 24. Technology supports Reflective, Personalised, Adaptive Learning and "Wisdom of the Crowd"
- 25. Innovative Interface Devices aid Diagnosis and Treatment
- 26. We are on the threshold of a new era of Gamification and embedded pervasive games that could transform society
- 27. Society will not have the resources to support ageing population and lifestyle related health issues
- 28. Visualisation of sensor data tracking our lives linked to games and simulations will provide the feedback and control mechanisms that will reconnect our society
- 29. In the UK pilot schemes are in progress to use gyms to treat obese patients as a cost effective alternative to gastric surgery
- 30. European Projects like DOREMI may explore games and sensor technologies that support independent living
- 31. Living Laboratory for Gamification of Obesity Challenge
- 32. Monitoring and Managing health through sensors, games and social networks
- 33. Empowering Citizens and creating new business opportunities and models to build a more sustainable future
- 35. The Future of Serious Games and Immersive Technologies david@davidwortley.com
Editor's Notes
- Keynote presentation at the Singapore Serious Games and Social Connect Conference 2013
- My message for today is that developments in emerging, converging and maturing technologies make serious games, immersive technologies and gamification very relevant to addresssing some of the mos important challenges we face in business, the environment, health and society generally.
- The changes during my lifetime have been dramatic. It is only 60 years since most citizens had no access to any kind of communications technology.
- In those days, society and daily life was very different
- Many of the influences in our lives were shaped by games
- Society was very structured and hierarchical and those who had acquired knowledge tended to have most power
- It took years of training to become a knowledge professional and these people were the sole providers of our key services
- Digital technologies changed everything – the image is of a IBM 5120, forerunner of the IBM PC circa 1980
- Early computers used digital storage and applications to mimic books and simple quizzes and computer based training was born
- As technology matured, the games industry pushed bac the boundaries of technology to produce more ad more realistic simulations that could be used to train people – the example is a simulation called “Dying Dave”, developed by UK company Trusim
- Today’s Digital Natives only know a world where information and knowledge is accessible 24/7 and as a consequence the nature of education has been totally transformed.
- Today our world is more like this !!
- These changes mean that knowledge is no longer power and individual citizens have a disproportionate influence on the world.
- We have personal agents on mobile phones and iPads that greatly empower us and give us more control over our daily lives
- New interfaces create opportunities for innovative applications where we can control technology with our minds and our gestures.
- What was science fiction soon becomes science fact.
- Serious games like Triage Trainer have been researched to demonstrate that well designed games can be more effective that traditional methods
- The networked society creates a paradoxical situation where there is a disconnect between action and consequences. It is a very unstable and unsustainable situation, creating many of today’s problems
- Here are a couple of examples. In the developed world we expect to receive healthcare as a right without any responsibility for self-inflicetd problems like obesity that arise often from our lifestyles.
- If we are to tackle these problems, we need to train, orientate and assess staff in a fats moving environment.
- Some games for entertainment can also provide serious benefits.
- Many games also encourage behavioural change
- Cities like Stockholm encouraged physical exercise by gamifying the stairs to make them an attractive option to the escalator
- Games based learning projects are becoming more sophisticated and personalised.
- Interface devices like Microsoft Kinect and applications developed for entertainment are proving very effective for serious adaptation in both diagnosis and treatment.
- Today, I believe we are on the threshold of some very exciting developments which will embed gamification into our daily lives and transform society
- We have no option but to address these challenges because we do not have the resources to manage growing problems that arise from the ageing society and modern lifestyles.
- It is devices like the Jawbone UP and similar technologies that have the potential to reconnect society.
- Pilot schemes are already in progress where responsibility for management of health is transferred from health professionals to other providers with substantial benefits and cost savings.
- New projects are like to use this approach in areas related to the ageing society to help people live not only longer but healthier and more productive lives.
- I am using myself as a living laboratory to manage my health and gamify my weight problem. In 10 weeks, I was able to lose 15Kg through this approach.
- I was able to do this through the tools now accessible to me that helped me to understand and manage the factors responsible for my weight and health.
- There will be many new business models arising from these technologies and traditional providers of healthcare will face new challenges from unexpected sources.
- My book illustrates the changes that have taken place in my lifetime and the future implications of these changes
- If you would like to know more, contact me at david@davidwortley.com