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Games for Health

Screenshot from DietCare

DietCare: the value of game elements

What if keeping track of your food and fluids intake feels like playing a game rather than paperwork?

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01-03-2018 // News // Games Beyond Entertainment, Games for Health
Group of friends playing augmented reality game with mobile phones in park

Healthy urban life

The success of Niantic's Pokémon GO shows the many possibilities mobile games offer to reach a big audience and 'play' with the way you use a city.

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01-03-2018 // Insights // Extended Realities (AR/VR/XR), Games for Health
Jan Willem Huisman, founder and CEO of IJSfontein

Health games symposium

This symposium brought together experts in the fields of game design and development, psychology, neuroscience, physiotherapy, and data and computer science.

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01-03-2018 // Events // Games Beyond Entertainment, Games for Health

Game Research Magazine

In 2017, a special issue titled Game Research – Games that Change your Mind was published about the research projects of the Utrecht Center for Game Research.

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17-10-2017 // Publications // Criticism and Analysis, Games and Sustainability, Games Beyond Entertainment, Games for Health

Center for Game Research

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