Society for Participatory Medicine Fitness Games For The Xbox 360 Kinect: A Review I haven’t mentioned it much here, but I enjoy video gaming. Maybe a bit too much, it may be part of what has gotten me into such bad shape – sitting on the couch vegging out all the time. Well now, you can enjoy still enjoy playing video games, but get a workout while you’re at it! If you’re into video games at all you know that next week the Xbox team will be launching a new peripheral for the Xbox 360 that will allow controller free gaming, motion capture, video chat, voice commands and a host of other functionality. The Kinect hasn’t launched as of this writing, so the jury is still out as to just how well Kinect will work. Initial reports are that the Kinect performs rather well, and I for one am excited at the prospect of controller free gaming, and am interested to see how well these fitness games work. Fitness Games For Xbox Kinect So what fitness games will be available for Kinect at launch? Your Shape Fitness Evolved Read a full review of the game that I’ve now done. Conclusion
The Health 2.0 Blog: Personal Genome Management--the next big thing? by Matthew Holt Elevating Community Health with Innovation and Engagement The Health 2.0 movement strives to inspire innovative action in digital health, aiming to improve health at the individual, community, population, and global level. Our work as a company will continue to contribute to the growing determination and dialog on April 3rd at Health 2.0’s second annual Healthy Communities Data Summit on the UCLA campus. In working with the Calfornia Health Care Foundation, California Wellness Foundation, and the Lucille Packard Foundation, Health 2.0 expects a perserverant group of speakers, demoers, and leaders to identify the community health needs in California, and to jumpstart the ways in which we can all work to fix them. The second annual Healthy Communities Data Summit inspired productive conversation and data discussion, demonstrating new data sets and resources focused on understanding underserved populations, childrens health networks, and larger patient population profiles. News & Updates
Radboud REshape Innovation Centre The Gamification of Wellness « Healthy Community Networks For a full 80% of the population who don’t exercise – it’s just not fun! Hey, for some of us dutifully heading to our workouts – is that why we call them “work?” As gamification intersects every aspect of life, wellness can get into the “game” as well. Companies are realizing that “gamification” — using the same mechanics that hook gamers — is an effective way to engage people. Since the advent of videogames, skeptics have questioned their inherent value: why do players spend hours accruing virtual points working towards intangible rewards? Chalk it up to basic human behavior, which game makers have been trying to understand and appeal to for decades. Too often a social media or marketing guru armed with “gamification” aspirations will try to employ game-like mechanisms to provide a sense that customers/audience is having fun while working towards a rewards-based goal. Proponents of “gamification” consider conventional incentive-based mechanics to be flawed, broken, or skewed. Like this:
The Genetic Genealogist | Adding DNA to the Genealogist's Toolbox Informed Medical Decisions - Information To Make Sound Medical Decisions healthgamescamp Thank you! Thank you to all of the participants in the first HealthGamesCamp! Thank you for playing the game with such passion and energy, and for pouring yourselves into the fabulous health-behavior-changing game designs and prototypes that were produced! Because head-to-head game competition was important to drive excellent design in a short timeframe, we do have HealthGamesCamp winners. Final Results for Team Competition Collaboration Awards Tweet your congratulations to the winners! best critical thinker: Mark Glusker best constraint discoverer: Nick Furci best creative thinker: Chelsea Howe @manojalpa best idea modifier: Mark Glusker best visualizer: Juan Rubio best human factors advocate: Julie Price best strategic visionary: Chris Mahoney @cpmahoney best use case or scenario identifier: Leslie Chicoine @theinfonaut best consensus builder: Amanda Miller Blogs, Photos, Videos Please post or link anything that you want to share from the event here: Photos by Rajiv Mehta: photos When?
Mobile Health: Will Network Applications Help Us Get Healthy? - ReadWriteCloud Last week, we were at the mHealth initiative conference in Washington D.C. The keynotes were all about the impact mobile health applications are having in shaping the future of the health care system. Nothing demonstrates that more than the iPhone. Mobile and wireless health applications directly impact the individual's health and have the promise of ensuring that when a patient leaves a doctor visit, they don't become "lost" in the system. For citizens in the United States, this movement could offer a future where there is allocated wireless spectrum that brings a wealth of health information into our homes and to our personal devices. Dr. Barriers First, he described a few barriers that have existed in the past. Connectivity between systems is a major issue and challenge in health care. Key Challenges Next, Dr. The US needs to invest in infrastructure to meet the growing needs of a mobile-enabled population.
Patient research | patient panel | PIP Health The Gamification of Healthcare By Giorgio Baresi - October 29, 2010 When I started to use Nike Plus I couldn't imagine I would end up enjoying running so much. Nike Plus allowed me to keep a record of all of my runs and gather feedback and motivation from friends on Facebook, where all of my runs are automatically posted. Thanks to a challenge we've set up in the frog Milan Studio, I've pushed my limits much farther than I would have ever expected only a month ago. You might wonder why this should matter to you. Healthcare needs to be reframed: we need to move away from a system which is HCP-centric, based on treatment and prescriptions, command and control. When it comes to behavior change, BJ Fogg's mantra "put hot triggers on the path of motivated people" becomes a must, but with one caveat: motivating people affected by a disease, especially if it is a chronic one, can be extremely hard. Designing the behavior change View more presentations from frog design.
Mobile Application to Diagnose Disease by Hearing you Cough Turn Your Head...Towards Your Mobile Phone The American and Australian scientists at STAR have received a $100,000 grant from the Gates Foundation to develop the cough-analyzing software for developing countries where access to health care is more limited than in first world nations. Despite the poor economic conditions of these under-developed countries, there are a plethora of mobile phones which are being used for everything from early warning systems to mobile payments to health alerts. The way the diagnostic software works is by comparing the sounds of the mobile user's cough to a database of coughs associated with all the different types of respiratory diseases. At the moment, the software exists as a computer application but the scientists plan to have it re-written, when complete, as an application for mobile phones. There's no word on when the mobile application will be released, but the scientists will need to collect around 1000 cough samples before the database is ready.
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