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The Serious Games Initiative founded Games for Health to develop a community and best practices platform for the numerous games being built for health care applications. To date the project has brought together researchers, medical professionals, and game developers to share information about the impact games and game technologies can have on health care and policy.


Early Schedule Games for Health 2006

Posted by Ben Sawyer on 06-05-31

Games for Health 2006 Early Schedule
Specific Sessions will be announced on July 5, 2006. We are planning over 25 sessions covering:

• Health messaging using games
• Combat & emergency medicine
• Exergaming and physical therapy games and technologies
• Psychotherapy and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Pain Distraction & Anxiety
• Cancer treatment
• Disease management & self-directed care
• Cognitive health
• Off-the-Shelf and custom solutions

Please click below for current timing and schedule outline of all session blocks...

Current Schedule Outline
Our current schedule outline is as follows:

Wednesday, September 27, 2006
6pm-9pm
Welcoming Reception & Tours of University of Maryland Shock Trauma Unit

Thursday September 28, 2006
Conference Registration, Breakfast, Networking, Expo Setup
8am-9am

Welcome
9:00am-9:15am

Keynote
9:15am - 10:00am

Morning Sessions
One plenary session and two simultaneous smaller breakouts
10:00am - 12:30pm


Lunch, Expo, and Networking
12:30pm - 2:00pm

Afternoon Sessions
One plenary session and two simultaneous smaller breakouts
includes half-hour planned break for additional networking
2:00pm - 5:30pm

Reception & Networking
5:30pm - 8:00pm

Friday September 29, 2006

Breakfast, Networking, Expo, Casual Roundtables
8:00am-9:30am

Day II Keynote
9:30am-10:15am

Morning Sessions
Two main sessions
Two simultaneous smaller breakouts
10:30am - 12:30pm

Lunch, Expo, and Networking
12:30pm - 1:30pm

Afternoon Sessions
Two main sessions
Two simultaneous smaller breakouts
1:30pm - 4:30pm

Adjourned
4:30pm