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SUMMARY:Games for Health Conference in Boston
DESCRIPTION:Games Gateway - U.S. Mid Atlantic Region\n\nThe Games for Healt
 h Project Fifth Annual Games for Health Conference  See all the details and
  register at www.gamesforhealth.org.\n\nOur best event yet promises to prov
 ide great insight to the growing worlds of exergaming/active games\, health
  training games\, disease management efforts\, and much much more. Our conf
 erence platform provides attendees with great content\, important networkin
 g opportunities\, and a focus on providing opportunities to develop new pro
 jects and improve existing efforts\n\nGames for Health Program Overview\n\n
 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 internati
 onal array of over 50 speakers cutting across a wide range of activities in
  health and health care.\n\nTopics include exergaming\, physical therapy\, 
 disease management\, health behavior change\, bio-feedback\, epidemiology\,
  training\, cognitive exercise\, nutrition and health education.\n\nTo subm
 it a session\, panel\, or roundtable for consideration for our program plea
 se visit our call for content. \n\nGames Accessibility Day (June 10\, 2009)
 \n\nMaking all games accessible to people with lifelong or temporary physic
 al and/or cognitive disabilities is an important need for the videogame fie
 ld in general. At the same time the ability to use games to directly help p
 eople with disabilities is an important output of the games for health fiel
 d. \n		\nVirtual Worlds and Health Day (June 10\, 2009)\n\nGames for Health
  will feature a full day of content focused on the use of virtual world sys
 tems and health. Virtual worlds combine social systems with game-based inte
 rfaces and graphics to create entirely new synthetic spaces to train\, prac
 tice\, and visualize. Such systems hold great promise to health and healthc
 are through layering on of  game-play or enabling pure simulation or new fo
 rms of social interaction.\n\nGames for Health Receptions (June 11 & 12\, 2
 009)\n\nThis year's Games for Health Conference features two receptions for
  attendees. On June 11\, our main reception will provide our biggest networ
 king 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-conferen
 ce events and early arrivals for the Games for Health Conference.\n\nBoston
 \, MA  02128 - USA\n\nThursday\, June 11 at 8:00 AM\n\nPhoto: http://photos
 4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/3/8/0/6/event_2594342.jpeg\n\nAttending: 8\
 n\nDetails: http://gamedev.meetup.com/175/calendar/10367371/
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LOCATION:Hyatt Harborside - 101 Harborside Drive - Boston\, MA  02128 - USA
URL:http://gamedev.meetup.com/175/calendar/10367371/
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