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

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

Submitted by Chadius on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 14:47.

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 - 04:59.

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 - 14:56.

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 - 14:30.

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 - 14:35.

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 - 13:03.

article explaining wii fit death

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

Submitted by MaskedPixelante on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 07:37.

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 - 12:04.

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 - 11:25.

Wii Fit death? Explain.

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