TY - GEN
T1 - Health games
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Serious Games Development and Applications, SGDA 2012
AU - Gekker, Alex
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This paper presents an exploratory research of health games in EU, focusing on the role of multiplayer in the health-games experience, utilizing the health-game taxonomy suggested by Sawyer and Smith [1], combined with a preliminary survey of fity existing European health games in order to point out existing trends and suggest currently untapped venues of exploration. First, a theoretical review is presented, utilizing framework from the humanities and cultural studies in order to address what seen as a design issue with contemporary serious health games. Then, the results of a quantitative study of existing health games are presented, and analyzed through an existing taxonomy. Last, based on the lacunas found in the taxonomy, a thorough theoretical analysis is undertaken on their possible reasons, and suggestions on design methodologies are introduced through a comparison with existing commercial multiplayer games.
AB - This paper presents an exploratory research of health games in EU, focusing on the role of multiplayer in the health-games experience, utilizing the health-game taxonomy suggested by Sawyer and Smith [1], combined with a preliminary survey of fity existing European health games in order to point out existing trends and suggest currently untapped venues of exploration. First, a theoretical review is presented, utilizing framework from the humanities and cultural studies in order to address what seen as a design issue with contemporary serious health games. Then, the results of a quantitative study of existing health games are presented, and analyzed through an existing taxonomy. Last, based on the lacunas found in the taxonomy, a thorough theoretical analysis is undertaken on their possible reasons, and suggestions on design methodologies are introduced through a comparison with existing commercial multiplayer games.
KW - asynchronous multiplay
KW - game taxonomy
KW - health games
KW - multiplayer
KW - procedural rhetoric
KW - serious games
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84867599365&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-33687-4_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-33687-4_2
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AN - SCOPUS:84867599365
SN - 9783642336867
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 13
EP - 30
BT - Serious Games Development and Applications - Third International Conference, SGDA 2012, Proceedings
Y2 - 26 September 2012 through 29 September 2012
ER -