Games for Health 2013 - Quantified Self: Games & Gamification
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This document discusses how games and gamification can support the Quantified Self movement. The Quantified Self involves self-tracking one's personal data in order to gain self-knowledge and enable experimentation. While self-tracking is not new, the Quantified Self community shares data and learns from self-experiments. Games are engaging due to interesting choices and quantifiable outcomes. Both games and Quantified Self utilize personal data, so games could potentially support the Quantified Self by facilitating personalized experiments, promoting community, and influencing lifestyle and behavior changes. This may lead to meaningful health outcomes if the games drive engagement that generates useful self-tracking data and informs healthy knowledge and actions.
Games for Health 2013 - Quantified Self: Games & Gamification
- 1. Quantified Self: Games & Gamification Boston June 28, 2013Alan Au 1
- 2. Biomedical informatics postdoc Game industry journalist Not a fashion/art director Not a quantified self expert http://twitter.com/#!/Alan_Au 2
- 3. What am I playing? 3
- 4. What is this talk about? Quantified Self Games & Gamification + = Games for Health? 1 2 3 4
- 8. What is data used for? Identity Research Commerce Health Curiosity Entertainment Understanding Improvement 8
- 10. 10 Self-tracking is the cool new thing
- 11. but self-tracking isnt really new. 11
- 12. What do people self-track? Diet Exercise Mood Sleep habits Work habits Energy levels Personal performance Decision-making Happiness Overall health 12
- 13. How do people self-track? 13
- 15. Why do people self-track? How late can I drink coffee and still sleep well? Whats contributing to my headaches? Am I allergic to my laundry detergent? Which type of pollen is making me sneeze? Experiment (N=1): Does X cause Y? 15 http://quantifiedself.com/self-experiment/
- 19. Quantified Self = Self-tracking? 19 Experiment (N=1)
- 21. What is a game? A game is a series of interesting choices. Sid Meier "A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome." Katie Salen & Eric Zimmerman 21
- 22. Choices -> Quantifiable outcome 22
- 23. Interesting choices = Engagement Flow Channel States from "The Art of Game Design" by Jesse Schell 23
- 26. Games for Health (maybe?) 3 26
- 27. The future of health? 27
- 28. Both QS and games utilize data 28
- 29. Can games support Quantified Self? QS is about personalized experiments Few games enable personalized experiments QS is about community and lifestyle Many games promote community and lifestyle Maybe no, maybe yes 29
- 31. Self-tracking Quantified Self 31
- 32. QS + Games = Games for Health? Games are entertaining Entertainment drives engagement Engagement generates data Data make tracking easier Tracking informs outcomes Are those outcomes meaningful to health? 32
- 34. Implications for health Sense = Outcomes, metrics, goals, rewards Think = Knowledge, understanding Act = Behavior, activity, intervention 34
- 36. Were back where we started Quantified Self Games & Gamification + = Games for Health? 1 2 3 36
- 37. but with greater understanding. Self- Discovery Choices & Rewards + = Healthy Outcomes? 1 2 3 37
- 38. Thank you! Ben Sawyer Beth Bryant Games for Health 2013
- 39. Additional information http://quantifiedself.com/ http://social-qs.net/sqs/ http://digitaltrends.com/gaming/game-on-the-two-trends-driving- wearable-fitness/ http://guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/27/nike-fuelband- google-glass-quantified-self http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/24/worlds-a-game/ http://techland.time.com/2013/03/11/south-by-southwest-sxsw- quantified-self/ http://theregister.co.uk/2013/03/29/feature_the_quantified_self/ http://venturebeat.com/tag/quantified-self/ 39
Editor's Notes
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- #12: Quantified self is the grassroots movement organized around the principal of personal biometric data gathering and analysis. This nascent movement has grown in both size and influence over the years as people have become more interested in health but also in novel systems and services for measuring all sorts of biometric data and behavioral activity.
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