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Health and Fitness Gaming

In most industrialized countries, a large percentage of adults is obese or overweight because they are physically inactive. This leads to problems, such as decreasing the life quality of individuals and increasing health care costs, especially in North America. The millennial technology-centered lifestyle has brought about unhealthy habits, such as eating more processed food and less physical activity at home. Video games have risen in popularity over the past decades and some have blamed increased game playing habits for an unhealthy lifestyle change. This project investigates whether it is possible to motivate people for a healthy lifestyle and for maintaining increased physical activity by using video games. We are especially interested in exploring game design elements and psychological reward balancing that leads to increased exercise motivation and maintaining healthy eating habits. We are using physiological measures and behaviour tracking to analyse and study habit formation in physically interactive gaming environments.

People

Lead

Lennart Nacke
Director of the HCI Games Group

Participants

Gustavo Fortes Tondello
Ph.D. Researcher, Personalization of Gameful Interactive Systems
Dennis Kappen
Ph.D. Graduate, Game Design and User Interaction for Older Adults
Rina Wehbe
Ph.D. Student, Errors, Perception of AI, Health Games
Rita Orji
Post Doctoral Fellow, Persuasive Games

Publications


Proceedings

Motivational Affordances for Older Adults’ Physical Activity Technology: An Expert Evaluation

Dennis Kappen, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, and Lennart Nacke. 2019. Motivational Affordances for Older Adults’ Physical Activity Technology: An Expert Evaluation. .
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Proceedings

Gamification of Older Adults’ Physical Activity: An Eight-Week Study

Dennis Kappen, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, and Lennart Nacke. 2018. Gamification of Older Adults’ Physical Activity: An Eight-Week Study. .
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PhD Thesis

Adaptive engagement of older adults’ fitness through gamification

Dennis Kappen. 2017. Adaptive engagement of older adults’ fitness through gamification. .

Proceedings

Exploring the Potential of Game Audio for Wellbeing

Katja Rogers and Lennart Nacke. 2017. Exploring the Potential of Game Audio for Wellbeing. .
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Proceedings

Gamification through the Application of Motivational Affordances for Physical Activity Technology

Dennis Kappen, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, and Lennart Nacke. 2017. Gamification through the Application of Motivational Affordances for Physical Activity Technology. .
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Proceedings

Positive Gaming: Workshop on Gamification and Games for Wellbeing

Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Rita Orji, Kellie Vella, Daniel Johnson, Marierose van Dooren, and Lennart Nacke. 2017. Positive Gaming: Workshop on Gamification and Games for Wellbeing. .
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Proceedings

Towards Personality-driven Persuasive Health Games and Gamified Systems

Rita Orji, Lennart Nacke, and Chrysanne Di Marco. 2017. Towards Personality-driven Persuasive Health Games and Gamified Systems. .
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Proceedings

Using technology to boost employee wellbeing? How gamification can help or hinder results

Ekaterina Pogrebtsova, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Hardy Premsukh, and Lennart Nacke. 2017. Using technology to boost employee wellbeing? How gamification can help or hinder results. .
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Proceedings

ABOVE WATER: An Educational Game for Anxiety

Rina Wehbe, Diane Watson, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Marim Ganaba, Melissa Stocco, Alvin Lee, and Lennart Nacke. 2016. ABOVE WATER: An Educational Game for Anxiety. .
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Proceedings

ABOVE WATER: Extending the Play Space for Health

Rina Wehbe, Diane Watson, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, and Lennart Nacke. 2016. ABOVE WATER: Extending the Play Space for Health. .
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Proceedings

Design Strategies for Gamified Physical Activity Applications for Older Adults

Dennis Kappen, Lennart Nacke, Kathrin Gerling, and Lia Tsotos. 2016. Design Strategies for Gamified Physical Activity Applications for Older Adults. .
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Proceedings

Adaptive Engagement of Older Adults’ Fitness through Gamification

Dennis Kappen. 2015. Adaptive Engagement of Older Adults’ Fitness through Gamification. .
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Proceedings

Towards a Personalized Playful Digital Wellness Assistant

Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Rina Wehbe, and Lennart Nacke. 2015. Towards a Personalized Playful Digital Wellness Assistant. .
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Proceedings

Social Player Analytics in a Facebook Health Game

Lennart Nacke, Matthias Klauser, and Paul Prescod. 2014. Social Player Analytics in a Facebook Health Game. .
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