Pieter Van Gorp@pvgorp

Towards Unified Health Gamification

What if I log other sports types (Rowing, …)

What if I prefer to focus on healthy food?

What if I am older and cognitive training is more fun &relevant?

Summarizing: existing trackers & games

So far: only gamification on social islands specific activities are worth predefined points results are shown in apps/leaderboards per activity type social bonds are often superficial

So far: too much focus on specific physical activities (e.g., steps) So far: no infrastructure to prototype gamification experiments So far: people with disabilities are excluded for sure

Gamification Defined (Merriam-Webster, Google)

tMission

To let people perform the activities they enjoy truly as an individual in such a way that they are

part of an integrated social interaction.

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Towards Unified Health Gamification (UHG)

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Basic Flow

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Unified Flow

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Experiments w.r.t. UHG in Various Settings

Work-relatedBasic Need Satisfaction

Autonomy/Competence/Relatedness

Work Engagement

Health ActivitiesSocial/mental/physical

GameBusSocial/Mental/Physical

Job CharacteristicsDemand/Control/Support

Exhaustion

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Why Crossing Social Circles with UHG?UHG can connect employees/friends with intrinsic motivation for physical health with those who have quite different interests.

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Health assessmentSF-36 validated survey

(Ware & Sherbourne, 1992)

Methods & Results for ZuidZorg & GGzE Trials

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GameBus connected Game Examples

19 Sudoku-style puzzle Games, from easy to quite

complicated…

4 Medically Grounded Games

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GameBus connected Game Examples: Moves-App

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Desk Bikes: Automatic Data Sync

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A Platform For Experimenting

New: gamification beyond social islands design custom game rules without coding integrated leadersboards make teams with colleagues, families, sports clubs, …

Assign custom points based on age, or any other role Open API

TU/e can help you, please contact usinfo@gamebus.eu

eitdigital.euGameBus: Social & Personalized

http://bit.ly/GameBusItunes http://bit.ly/GameBusPlayhttps://app.gamebus.eu/

“The App that rewards you for the activities you enjoy truly as an individual, while being part of an integrated social interaction”