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Social Connection and Anonymity in Health Games | Health Games Research - 0 views

  • We have been investigating the impact of anonymity provided by avatars on emotional communication and self-disclosure. In a recent study done at the Institute for Creative Technology, University of Southern California (Kang, Watt,& Gratch, 2009), researchers found that increasing the levels of anonymity from none (full visual identification), to intermediate (a graphical avatar), to full (providing no visual representation at all), had two opposing effects: it decreased the sense of emotional connection while at the same time increasing the amount of self-disclosure of intimate information that an individual was willing to share.
  • the overall effect of increasing anonymity is to increase the communication of intimate information.
  • This should promote group cohesion and honest communication, even though anonymity also somewhat decreases the emotional connection with the other group members and thus might decrease the motivational effectiveness of social interaction in a game. This is a bit of a quandary, as we would like to have both emotional connection and self-disclosure.
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Community Clash - MeYou Health - 0 views

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    Online card game lets you investigate your community's health & well-being
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The Missing | Health and Safety Courses, Training, Health and Safety Audits - 2 views

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    I'm not such a fan of this one. The puzzles aren't all that educational but I thought the graphics were a bit interesting.
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5 Predictions for Game Mechanics in 2011 - 1 views

  • In 2011, we’ll start to see the first successful examples of game mechanics used for health — largely around big data streams and mobile, building off Fitbit, Nike+ GPS and other monitoring and measurement ecosystems
  • We’ll see the first “gamified” textbooks from publishers while federal and state governments will continue to innovate and support initiatives in education
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