[Air-L] Fwd: -REMINDER- Call for Papers Games for Health Europe 2013 Amsterdam, deadline May 24th

Alex Gekker gekker.alex at gmail.com
Wed Apr 10 09:27:27 PDT 2013


=REMINDER=

The deadline is in two weeks. Submission are encouraged also through the
conference EasyChair node:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gfheu2013

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>> From: Schouten, B.A.M. [bschouten at tue.nl]
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>> Call for Papers for the peer-reviewed track of the third European
>> Conference on Games for Health Europe, 28-29 October 2013 Amsterdam, The
>> Netherlands. Deadline: May 24th, 2013.
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>> Founded in 2004, the Games for Health Project supports community,
>> knowledge and business development efforts to use cutting-edge games and
>> game technologies to improve health and health care.
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>> The Games for Health Conference brings together researchers, medical
>> professionals and game developers to share information about the impact of
>> games, playful interaction and game technologies on health, health care and
>> health policy. Over three days, more than 400 attendees will participate in
>> over 60 sessions provided by an international array of 80+ speakers,
>> cutting across a wide range of activities in health and health care. Topics
>> include exergaming, physical therapy, disease management, health behavior
>> change, biofeedback, scientific validation, rehab, epidemiology, training,
>> cognitive health, nutrition and education.
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>> The aim of the conference is to bring together academics and
>> practitioners working within the field of Game & Play Design, Design
>> Research, Game Development and the Medical Community to explore and
>> innovate within the area of Health. The conference provides an excellent
>> opportunity to showcase practice and to mainstream research ideas and
>> outcomes. It will introduce a wider audience to key findings and products
>> from research and will illustrate how practice feeds back into and informs
>> research. The conference will create a forum for two-way communication
>> between the academic and practitioner communities and particularly welcomes
>> user led presentations and workshops. The programme will include
>> presentations of papers, workshops, a doctoral consortium and an exhibition
>> space for demonstrations and posters.
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>> Themes and topics:
>> The conference encourages papers from multi disciplines, especially from
>> game & play as well as from health practitioners and researchers. This call
>> for papers is intended to solicit contributions from an international
>> audience on recent developments and experiments that:
>> • Present innovative and state-of-the-art design and applications that
>> use playful concepts in health care settings,
>> • Describe game-based and playful solutions to behavior change and
>> pervasive healthcare problems,
>> • Share experiences, insights, best-practices and lessons-learned,
>> • Report the results of technical and social evaluations with regards to
>> playful interaction and serious game design related to health care,
>> • Report scientific insights on development and efficacy of gameplay in
>> professional an patient education,
>> • Report results of longitudinal studies,
>> • Discuss and highlight the key challenges and future developments within
>> the domain.
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>> Selected (peer reviewed) papers will be published by Springer Publishers.
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>> Submission Deadline: May 24th, 2013
>> Notification of Acceptance: June 21th, 2013
>> Final Submission: July 15th, 2013
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>> Please find more information on
>> http://www.gamesforhealtheurope.org/academic<http://www.gamesforhealtheurope.org/academic-track>or mail: Alex Gekker (
>> a.gekker at uu.nl)
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>> The editors:
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>> Prof. Dr. B.A.M. Schouten BA (Eindhoven University of Technology)
>> Dr. Marlies Schijven, MD MHSc (Academic Medical Center of Amsterdam)
>> Dr. Ir. M.M. Bekker (Eindhoven University of Technology)
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>> Prof. Dr. Ben A.M. Schouten BA
>> Playful Interactions
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>> Department of Industrial Design
>> Eindhoven University of Technology
>> P.O Box 513, 5600 MB  Eindhoven, The Netherlands
>> Main Building 3.38
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>> phn: 31(0)40-2472481
>> fax: 31(0)40-2475376
>> cel: 31 (0)653758997
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