One of the characteristics of autism is the struggle to make and maintain eye contact. That challenge is part of a broader difficulty that autistic children have with social skills. Health care professionals have various ways to help autistic children connect with the world. Samsung is trying to do it with game-based learning.
In our next collection from the best gamification stories of 2013, we have a cornucopia of healthy gamified applications for everyone to check out. Gamification Co readers were most interested in seeing new health apps in 2013 and we have about 20 of the top health apps for you to check out here.
Here’s to seeing even more at 2014! (Especially with all that new stuff at CES)
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This past week, Gabe discusses how the rise of autism will make engagement even more important in his closing keynote at GSummit. He then gets into Memecube’s success as the world’s first gamified conference Twitter app, debuting at GSummit. Get the full story by watching the video below:
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Gamification and healthcare may be the next best thing since the invention of bread and butter. I recently read an article on 3 different ways that video games can improve health and immediately became curious as to other research going on in this area. Since GSummit 2013 is fast approaching, I would like to take the time to provide a brief comprehensive overview of how games and healthcare are converging in harmony in 2013.
Behold! Gamification Co’s Best of 2012 series will conclude with the best of Education from last year. The education community showed intense engagement with these articles for here and I hope that these resources may inspire countless classrooms to change into engagement powerhouses for students. Read on about how some of Blizzard’s most popular games are education High School and College classes, an iPad app to train Autistic children, a classroom gamifying musical compositions, an interview with Kevin Werbach, Coursera Gamification Professor, and finally – a full six part series by an expert educator discusses gamification’s current role in modern education. Get schooled after the jump
Imagine for a moment that you had no internal volume control. Everything you saw, heard, and felt was perceived by your brain at equal intensity–from the birds singing outside your window and the dripping of the faucet to the person giving you instructions. Imagine that you were unable to prioritize this information, to sort out…
