A game called EteRNA is being used to further research into how RNA folds itself into particular shapes. The game is a way of crowdsourcing the modeling to free biomedical scientists to use the shapes for their research.
What better way is there to entice gamifiers and game-designers to work than to hold a friendly competition? The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is holding a $200,000 competition to find the best game applications to improve individual and community health.
The Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Games to Generate Data Challenge will be an open contest that will challenge developing teams to take data from the RWJF and apply it to improving health care with games. This contest is the second cash challenge sponsored by the Aligning Forces for Quality, which previously challenged designers to create gamified applications that assisted healthcare practitioners in generating quality data.
Announced last week, Games for Health: Research, Development, and Clinical Applications (G4H) is a new peer-reviewed journal investigating research into the field of games for health. Games for health as a field has largely been focused around industry events such as the Games for Health Conference–which recently celebrated its seventh year–and the serious games community….
Julie Price, CEO of Mobile Adventure Walks, is an expert in human factors, UX, marketing, and product management. After analyzing gym members psychological and behavior profiles, Julie began building technology products to change behavior. Her designs and tests evaluated different interactions, themes, voices, and game-mechanics that would attract people to move more and eat healthier. Julie earned her MBA from…
Games for Health Founder, Ben Sawyer has been endeavoring to bring games into health practices for just over six years. This year, the conference was held on the Boston Harbor, just across from campuses of SCVNGR, IdeaPaint, and Babson College (entrepreneurial leader in education and future site for our Gamification Workshop).
