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Games for Health day at E3
by Ian Bogost April 14, 2006

Games for Health is running a one-day event right before E3, on May 9th. The "full-day event" will focus on "the use of games and game technologies in health and healthcare, including an evening reception." Topics include health messaging, combat and emergency medicine, psychotherapy, cancer treatment, disease management, and cognitive health.

A limited number of public tickets are available for $99. Register here. And if you're going to E3, best to get your travel sorted as soon as possible; check out these tips from Games for Health.

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This sounds like an interesting event. I hope they take a critical look at the ways off-the-shelf exergaming can be used to positively affect the current generation of kids. I definitely want to learn more about the WV schools that are implementing DDR into their phys ed. program.

As a real life example of someone who has lost over 35 pounds through a regimine of dance-dancing to the revolution, I'm all for developers finding ways to turn our must-keep-playing gaming tendencies to good, healthy habits.

Games for Health is running a one-day event right before E3, on May 9th. The "full-day • fulvic acid and parkinson's" will focus on "the use of games and game technologies in health and healthcare, including an evening reception." Topics include health messaging, combat and emergency medicine, psychotherapy, cancer treatment, disease management, and cognitive health.

Haha E-3 is really hard to get into though.