Play on: Serious Games for Elderly Citizens

Play on: Serious Games for Elderly Citizens

Sabine Wildevuur (Waag Society) Jacco van Uden (STT)

Games for Health Europe Amsterdam, October 24-25, 2011

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SERIOUS GAMES for

SENIOR CITIZENS

- Catching up quickly -  Avid players -  Rise of Health Games -  Healthy Ageing

•  Physical •  Mental •  Social

GAMES AND SENIOR CITIZENS: GENERAL OBSERVATIONS (1) -  ‘More than a old person’

-  Games can serve as stepping stone (self-efficacy)

-  ‘Non-social’ games serve important social functions

GAMES AND SENIOR CITIZENS: TRENDS AND OPPORTUNITIES (1) -  Increasing familiarity with games (as medium)

-  Better, more intuitive interfaces

GAMES AND SENIOR CITIZENS: TRENDS AND OPPORTUNITIES (2) -  Gamification: applying succesful game practices to

everyday life

-  Invisible exercising / gaming

-  Concept driven

-  Better use of existing infrastructures

Serious gaming for SOCIAL WELLBEING

FORESIGHT

SERIOUS GAMES FOR ELDERLY

Physical well-being

Mental Social

Prevention Exergaming Brain trainer

Connected ness

Treatment Rehabi- litation

VR treatment

Education Surgical training

Simulation

about THE NEXT GENERATION SENIOR CITIZENS 2025

82,7 TO 87,4

78,8 TO 84,5

CONVOY OF LIFE

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CONNECTEDNESS THROUGH GAMING?

INTERGENERATIONAL

Gaming for senior citizens: on all levels of well-being

More open ended plays

Translocality

PLAY ON: TAKE AWAY

Download report Play On! (Dutch): http://www.stt.nl/ Jacco van Uden (STT), email: vanuden@stt.nl Sabine Wildevuur (Waag Society), email: sabine@waag.org