Renske Spijkerman
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Game Design in Mental Health Care
Case Study–Based Framework for Integrating Game Design into Therapeutic Content
While there has been increasing interest in the use of gamification in mental health care, there is a lack of design knowledge on how elements from games could be integrated into existing therapeutic treatment activities in a manner that is balanced and effective. To help addr ...
Mental health therapy protocols and ehealth design
Focus group study
We designed and implemented a gamified eHealth application for youth mental healthcare, to study how game design techniques could be applied within this context. This resulted in the design of a gamified mobile application aimed at supporting therapeutic goal setting: the Read ...
Different types of rewards are applied in persuasive games to encourage play persistence of its users and facilitate the achievement of desired real-world goals, such as behavioral change. Persuasive games have successfully been applied in mental healthcare and may hold potent ...
Rewards that make you play
The Distinct effect of monetary rewards, virtual points and social rewards on play persistence in substance dependent and non-dependent adolescents
Designers of persuasive games typically apply various types of rewards to increase the player's play persistence and to motivate the player for real world goals such as a behavioral change. In this paper, we tested if different major types of game-rewards resulted in different ...
Learnings and Challenges in Designing Gamifications for Mental Healthcare
The Case Study of the ReadySetGoals Application
Although the potential benefits of applying game design techniques for healthcare purposes has been recognized in the past, there has not yet been much research on how such applied games could be created and used in practice. This paper presents the learnings and challenges fo ...