Last weekend I spotted an increasing number of online articles appearing that claim Nintendo’s new Pokemon Go mobile app has a huge positive impact on mental health. Intrigued by the headlines I decided to read the articles only to discover the claims being made used a combination of existing research papers into the benefits of…
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Exploring Gamification in Health & Wellbeing Apps
While assessing the information rich roster of seminars at EHI Live 2014, I spotted an intriguing seminar hidden away under the HANDI Health Apps Conference line-up relating to one of my key areas of research: “Gamification”. The EHI Live guide described the seminar as a discussion of how gamification in digital applications can enhance user…
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