Games for Health EU 2019: The Host’s Tale
So, the dust has settled on the 9th Games for Health. The microphones have been carefully packed away, the lights have been dimmed and the exhibitors have taken down their stands in preparation for the next event. I am as far as Schiphol, via Hoofddorp, with time to reflect on the proceedings of the past […]
The Future of Healthcare
In our line of work, it is almost impossible not to wonder about what the future of healthcare might hold. The following predictions are from Anna Sort, whom you might recognize as a keynote speaker at GFHEU conferences. We believe her presentation on ‘Why the world needs more gaming nurses’ was one of the highlights […]
Join the 11th DSSH Conference
Our chairman, Jurriaan van Rijswijk, will be participating in the Serious Game Battle: Folly or Wisdom at the 11th edition of the Dutch Society for Simulation in Healthcare conference. The conference will start at 9:00 on March 13, 2019 at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam. Read more on the DSSH website.
Stall Catchers
Today, Nature Neurosience posted the article “Neutrophil adhesion in brain capillaries reduces cortical blood flow and impairs memory function in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models,” which offers an explanation for the reduced blood flow in Alzheimer’s brain: capillary stalls, and what causes them. Finding these aforementioned ‘stalls’ is the main goal of the Human Computation Institute’s […]
Retrospective Video
Now that the first month of January has come and gone we want to take this opportunity to reflect on the last year as well as look forward on what is to come. Last year, during GFHEU, we invited you to play, learn and exchange ideas during Europe’s biggest gathering on games for health. A […]
Submissions for 2019
With the 8th edition fresh in mind, the time to relax is over. Another interesting theme will offer you an excellent opportunity to present your research, experiences, case studies, game design, business case or other related topics for our international audience. All embedded in the theme, playful intelligence. Playful intelligence is the theme for the […]
The future is now
Last week, our team attended Games for Impact in Warsaw, Poland and it reminded us just how much has changed in the last few years. Over the course of a few days, we met a huge variety of people and companies who were trying to raise awareness for the use of games in healthcare. Elderly […]
Serious Games and Gamification
This article is part of a series on Playful Intelligence. Earlier this week we talked about the importance of play and now we want to dive deeper into the topic. It’s important when we are talking about play to mention the difference between serious games and gamification since people often seem to confuse the two. […]
The importance of play
We’ve previously introduced you to Playful Intelligence, the theme of GFHEU19. Over the course of the next few months, we want to explore this theme together. We will start off by taking a few steps back and looking at the theme of play. A recent article in the Guardian asks: if play is the beginning […]
Playful Intelligence
In the past few months, we have been looking back at the last few years in our History of GFHEU posts and tried to prepare you for the 8th edition of GFHEU. Now it is time to look to the future with the first look at next year’s theme: Playful Intelligence. What is playful intelligence? […]