Brilliant. Note the subtitle for my blog? Keep an eye out for the WiiFit. Hello, Sony? Hello, Microsoft? Where are yooouuuu? This is just the beginning:
Nintendo Wii popular choice for therapists, children WICHITA FALLS, Texas — Jackson Peterson is running Read More...
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Games
on Mon, Jun 16 2008
Filed under: Game Industry, Video Games, Emerging Technologies, Medical Technology, Serious Games, Wii
A “headset that uses a set of sensors to tune into electric signals naturally produced by the brain to detect player thoughts, feelings and expression… Project Epoc now makes it possible for games to be controlled and influenced by the player’s Read More...
Posted to
Games
on Fri, Mar 9 2007
Filed under: Video Games, Society, Game Design and 3d Modeling, Emerging Technologies, Medical Technology, neuropsychology
Check this out - it made the Advances in Medicine column in the National Review of Medecine (Canada):
Can video games zap childhood - and adult - obesity?
Studies suggest that games can [...] Read More...
Posted to
Games
on Tue, Mar 6 2007
Filed under: Video Games, Society, Medical Technology, Wii
Very interesting, if only as a diagnostic tool so far - they don’t have a therapeutic application of this yet. But the research does suggest there’s a lot more to be discovered out there beyond the horizon of the research we’ve done Read More...
Posted to
Games
on Fri, Mar 2 2007
Filed under: Video Games, Medical Technology, Virtual Reality
The Reuters article by Andrew Stern is available here. It looks to me like this story is breaking big in the media - MSNBC has syndicated this now, and I expect other big media will. Note this is real data from a medical study, published in a journal Read More...
Posted to
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on Wed, Feb 21 2007
Filed under: Video Games, education technology, Education, Medical Technology