Digital Games for Physical, Cognitive and Behavioral Health
By: Alvaro Fernandez The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) just announced more than $1.85 million in grants for research teams to study how digital games can improve players’ health behaviors and outcomes (both brain-based and behavioral). The press release: Nine Leading Research Teams Selected to Study How Digital Games Improve Players’ Health “Digital games are interactive and experiential, and so they can engage people in powerful ways to enhance learning and health behavior change, especially when they are designed on the basis of well-researched strategies,” said (UC Santa Barbara’s Dr. All 9 studies sound interesting, 3 of them are closer to what we track: University of California, San Francisco (San Francisco, CA) A Video Game to Enhance Cognitive Health in Older Adults. The press release: Here. More information: Health Games Research. Related articles:
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