Find out how games can be used to transform healthcare and create "epic wins" for patients. Drawing on the latest clinical trials and peer-reviewed research, Jane McGonigal, PhD explains how games build positive health assets, such as resilience, optimism and self-efficacy. She explores how games can be used as a powerful tool for behavior change, particularly in tackling chronic and lifestyle-related challenges such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease. She will demonstrate how to create stronger social support systems through games to speed recovery from injury and illness. And she will share her own research on how games can increase longevity — by creating physical, mental, social and emotional habits that lead to 10 extra years of healthy life.
Jane McGonigal has been creating games ever since she discovered the level editor in Lode Runner for the Commodore 64 back in 1983. Although many people give up on such entertaining pastimes as they enter their adult years, McGonigal has turned her childhood passion into a playful career. She is the Chief Creative Office of SuperBetter Labs, an online social game that helps people achieve their health goals.
Jane McGonigal, a game designer and game researcher, says technology will intensify the personalization of the student experience in the coming years.
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