The Games for Health Project Fifth Annual Games for Health Conference See all the details and register at www.gamesforhealth.org.

Our best event yet promises to provide great insight to the growing worlds of exergaming/active games, health training games, disease management efforts, and much much more. Our conference platform provides attendees with great content, important networking opportunities, and a focus on providing opportunities to develop new projects and improve existing efforts

Games for Health Program Overview

Our main event is the core Games for Health Conference. Featuring two-days of talks, more then 300 attendees and 40 sessions provided by an international array of over 50 speakers cutting across a wide range of activities in health and health care.

Topics include exergaming, physical therapy, disease management, health behavior change, bio-feedback, epidemiology, training, cognitive exercise, nutrition and health education.

To submit a session, panel, or roundtable for consideration for our program please visit our call for content.

Games Accessibility Day (June 10, 2009)

Making all games accessible to people with lifelong or temporary physical and/or cognitive disabilities is an important need for the videogame field in general. At the same time the ability to use games to directly help people with disabilities is an important output of the games for health field.

Virtual Worlds and Health Day (June 10, 2009)

Games for Health will feature a full day of content focused on the use of virtual world systems and health. Virtual worlds combine social systems with game-based interfaces and graphics to create entirely new synthetic spaces to train, practice, and visualize. Such systems hold great promise to health and healthcare through layering on of game-play or enabling pure simulation or new forms of social interaction.

Games for Health Receptions (June 11 & 12, 2009)

This year's Games for Health Conference features two receptions for attendees. On June 11, our main reception will provide our biggest networking event and a showcase for exciting work in the games for health field. On June 10 we will host a small reception for attendees of our pre-conference events and early arrivals for the Games for Health Conference.