Games for Health Conference

Fourth Annual Games for Health Conference 2008
May 8-9, 2008
Baltimore Convention Center
Baltimore, Maryland

The Games for Health Conference offers a rich platform for learning, promotion, networking and business development for organizations interested in the intersection between games and health. Topics to be covered include exergaming, medical simulation, interactive messaging, health behavior change, medical informatics, physical therapy, and game development. The conference will offer demo rooms that will feature hands-on ability to play with various games.

More than 300 individuals from 100 organizations (academic institutions, government agencies and foundations/are these a subset of the orgs) are expected to attend.

Two pre-conference workshops on May 7 include Games Accessibility Day (accessibility for games, and special games for people with
disabilities) Virtual Worlds and Health (use of virtual worlds for health & healthcare).

Registration is $395.00 for Thursday, May 8 & Friday, May 9 and the pre-conference workshops on Wednesday, May 7 are $99.00-$129.00.

Program and housing details are available at: http://www.gamesforhealth.org.