From Games to Health

Lessons Learnt from the Video Games Industry

De: Anna Sort, Alba Sort

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Back in the day, playing video games was expensive and complicated, but everything changed when smartphones appeared. More people are playing than ever before, and video games are modifying how we spend our time, interact with the world, and engage with others. But what if the changes in human behaviour linked to video games could be transferred to other industries, such as healthcare? Wouldn't it be great to use them to improve patient care? This book looks at just that and identifies five key learnings from video games with the potential to transform healthcare for the better. Anna Sort is a nurse with a mission: making health fun. An engagement design entrepreneur, gamer and lecturer at several universities, Anna has a Masters in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media with a unique health IT specialisation, and often speaks at leading HIT events, most recently at Gamification World Congress, WOHIT and HIMSS, where she talks about the digital revolution of mHealth, gamification and serious games.