Games For Health

Games for Health is a project produced by The Serious Games Initiative, a Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars effort that applies cutting edge games and game technologies to a range of public and private policy, leadership, and management issues.

The 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.

In addition to the Games for Health conference, the Initiative is working to catalog use of games in health care, to assist current development, collect best practices, share research results, and explore ideas that might improve health care administration and policy.

Friends
Education Arcade
Watercooler Games
NASAGA
Ludology.org

Co-hosted by the ADL Academic Co-lab

The Academic Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Co-Lab serves as the focal point for universities and colleges in promoting high quality, reusable content for distributed learning. This Co-Lab is the ADL academic link to test, evaluate and demonstrate ADL-compliant tools and technologies to enhance teaching and learning. It also serves as an academic demonstration site for ADL tools and content, including those developed by the federal government, academia, and industry.

Working as a partner with the Department of Defense ADL Co-Laboratory in Alexandria, Virginia and other two node Co-Labs, the Academic ADL Co-Lab supports and collaborates on the research, development, demonstration, assessment, and implementation of ADL tools and content on projects of relevance to participating organizations.

Co-hosted by the Federation of American Scientists

We are proud to have as co-hosts the Federation of American Scientists' Learning Federation Project www.thelearningfederation.org

The Federation of American Scientists is a nonprofit research institution with a sixty year history of providing science and technology analysis. Its Board of Sponsors includes nearly one-half of the U.S. Nobel Laureates in science. Its current major initiatives include: strategic security, information technologies for education and training, and energy and the environment. For the past three years its Learning Federation project staff has worked with national experts in learning science and information technology to define a national research plan to develop the next generation of learning systems. The work of the Learning Federation has been supported by Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Digital Promise Project, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense.

Games For Health 2004 Registration

September 16-17
Madison, Wisconsin

Conference Registration
Registration for Games for Health 2004 costs $99.00 (rising to $199.00 after 8/31/04) and you may pay by check or credit card (M/C and Visa only). Note: Credit Card registration does not support one time registration for multiple participants.
  • To pay credit card please use our registration system

    We are no longer accepting checks. If you need to register on site please call 207 807 7428.

  • If you have any problems, or questions please call Beth Bryant at 1-888-286-3540.
Hotel
We have reserved special rates a two local Madison Hotels for Games For Health attendees. These especially low-rates are on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please contact the following hotels and mention "Games For Health" when registering.

The Best Western Inn on the Park
  • For reservations CALL the hotel directly at 1-800-279-8811 or (608) 257-8811.
  • Identify yourself as with "Games for Health block".
  • Rates are $62 per night single / $82 per night double.
  • Rates do not include taxes.
  • Individuals must call the hotel directly and make their own reservations.
  • Cancellation of reservations must be made 24 hours prior to the day of arrival.
  • The reservation cut off date is August 15.
  • Any reservations received after that date will be on a space and rate available basis.
The Madison Concourse Hotel
  • For reservations CALL the hotel directly at 1-800-356-8293 or (608) 257-6000.
  • Identify yourself as with "Games for Health block".
  • Rates are $62 per night single / $82 per night double.
  • Rate do not include taxes.
  • Individuals must call the hotel directly and make their own reservations.
  • Cancellation of reservations must be made 24 hours prior to the day of arrival.
  • The reservation cut off date is August 18.
  • Any reservations received after that date will be on a space and rate available basis.
Air Fare
Madison is served by Dane County Regional Airport (airport code: MSN) with the major carriers being:
  • Northwest
  • United Express
  • American Eagle/American Connection
  • Continental Express
  • Delta Connection
Ground Transportation
Cabs to and from the airport should be between $10-$20 each way. Enterprise, Avis, Hertz and National have on-site car rental, and Budget is offsite. For more details visit the Dane County Airport Ground Transportation page

Registration Notes

1. Cancellation Policy

If a participant cancels less than fourteen (14) business days prior to the date of the event, no refund can be issued. A substitute may be sent in place of the original registrant, but the individual participant or company/ogranization is responsible for coordinating and communicating this to the Academic ADL Co-Lab.

2. Privacy Statement

The Academic ADL Co-Lab, a cooperative project of the University of Wisconsin and Wisconsin Technical College Systems, does not disclose any personally identifiable information obtained from clients to any third party, except in cooperation with government agencies, as required by law or as noted below. Information collected by the Academic ADL Co-Lab about participants in the Games for Health 2004 Conference will be shared only with the Conference co-sponsors, the Serious Games Initiative and the Federation of American Scientists’ Learning Federation Project and will be used for the administrative and operational purposes of our services. The Academic ADL Co-Lab does not sell or rent personally identifiable information under any circumstances.

3. Doing Business As

Your credit card statement will reflect us Doing Business As: "University of WI System".

4. Customer Service

Please contact Monica at +1.608.263.6657 or monica@academiccolab.org if you have any questions regarding payment.