Proceedings of the positive gaming: Workshop on gamification and games for wellbeing–Preface
Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Daniel Johnson, Rita Orji, Marierose van Dooren, and Kellie Vella. 2017. Proceedings of the positive gaming: Workshop on gamification and games for wellbeing–Preface. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS. Online: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/200638/
Abstract
Gamification[5]and games have been used and studied in a variety of applications related to health and wellbeing [6,7,13]. Nevertheless, their application in the domains of wellbeing and flourishing[8,14](the pursuit of a happy and meaningful life rather than the simple in existence of illness) remain considerably less studied than other more common application areas, such as physical health or fitness. Therefore, this Workshop[15] aimed to provoke research and discussion by bringing together a community of interested researchers to discuss theoretical and practical considerations and promote the development of research projects focused on “Positive Gaming”as a technique for realizing the Positive Computing[2] objective of using technology to foster flourishing. A total of eight papers were accepted and presented at the Workshop. They addressed a rich variety of topics covering various areas of positive gaming including methods to understand users and design gameful applications for wellbeing. Examples application areas include motivating engagement in wellness activities, kindness interventions, nutritional interventions, and emotion regulation training; considerations for using technology to boost employee wellbeing; and opportunities for exploring game audio as a facilitator of wellbeing.