Wii To Be Hot Topic at Games For Health Conference

April 3, 2009

Registration has opened for the fifth annual Games For Health Conference.

This year's event will be held in Boston on June 11-12.

Nintendo's best-selling Wii console looks to be a hot topic. Of 31 GFH sessions listed so far, 20% are specific to either the Wii or to the Wii-dominated topic of exergaming. These sessions include:

Using Wii Games to Help Parkinson's Patients
Capturing Wiimote & Acceleromter Data for Active Gaming Evaluation
Senior Wii : A Study of Seniors and Wii Exercise
A Study of Wii Fit Effectiveness
Criticisms of Exergaming
Discussion & Best Practices for Implementation for Health Application of Exergames

Posted in Conferences Games & Health Games for Health Nintendo Wii

Comments

Re: Wii To Be Hot Topic at Games For Health Conference

Submitted by Chadius on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 15:47.

Sweet. If Nintnedo can get people to play games as a form of health maintenance, there's another avenue for games to be accepted.

Re: Wii To Be Hot Topic at Games For Health Conference

Submitted by Conster on Sat, 04/04/2009 - 05:59.

And then Nintendo will conquer the fitness business and stop making games altogether.

Re: Wii To Be Hot Topic at Games For Health Conference

Submitted by Andrew Eisen on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 15:56.

Wii Fit has sold over 6 million in the US alone.

Andrew Eisen

Re: Wii To Be Hot Topic at Games For Health Conference

Submitted by JacobAWD on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 15:30.

Wii fit isn't an exercise game, its a balencing game. My cousin is a PE coach at an elementry school,and he got the game to see if there was anything to use as a real exercise. He said it was a bit disapointing that it was not any real exercises. The closest thing to it was stretching.

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Re: Wii To Be Hot Topic at Games For Health Conference

Submitted by Andrew Eisen on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 15:35.

Huh, he must have missed the two dozen strength and aerobic games (push-ups, lunges, running, hula-hoop, etc.).

Andrew Eisen

Re: Wii To Be Hot Topic at Games For Health Conference

Submitted by DigiTekh on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 14:03.

article explaining wii fit death

Re: Wii To Be Hot Topic at Games For Health Conference

Submitted by MaskedPixelante on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 08:37.

Betcha they're gonna use the recent Wii Fit death are cannon fodder against the health aspects of the game.

---You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.

Re: Wii To Be Hot Topic at Games For Health Conference

Submitted by Conster on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 13:04.

What he said. Please explain.

Re: Wii To Be Hot Topic at Games For Health Conference

Submitted by Shadow D. Darkman on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 12:25.

Wii Fit death? Explain.

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