1. Play on: Serious Games for Elderly Citizens
Sabine Wildevuur (Waag Society)
Jacco van Uden (STT)
Games for Health Europe
Amsterdam, October 24-25, 2011

2. WWW.
SERIOUSGAMES.
TV

3. SERIOUS GAMES for
SENIOR CITIZENS
- Catching up quickly
- Avid players
- Rise of Health Games
- Healthy Ageing
• Physical
• Mental
• Social

5. GAMES AND SENIOR CITIZENS:
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS (1)
- ‘More than a old person’
- Games can serve as stepping stone (self-efficacy)
- ‘Non-social’ games serve important social functions

6. GAMES AND SENIOR CITIZENS:
TRENDS AND OPPORTUNITIES (1)
- Increasing familiarity with games (as medium)
- Better, more intuitive interfaces

7. GAMES AND SENIOR CITIZENS:
TRENDS AND OPPORTUNITIES (2)
- Gamification: applying succesful game practices to
everyday life
- Invisible exercising / gaming
- Concept driven
- Better use of existing
infrastructures

8. Serious gaming for
SOCIAL WELLBEING

9. FORESIGHT

10. SERIOUS Physical Mental Social
GAMES FOR well-being
ELDERLY
Prevention Exergaming Brain Connected
trainer ness
Treatment Rehabi- VR treatment
litation
Education Surgical Simulation
training

11. about THE
NEXT
GENERATION SENIOR
CITIZENS 2025
78,8 TO 84,5
82,7 TO 87,4
CONVOY
OF LIFE

12. CONNECTEDNESS
THROUGH GAMING?
12

14. INTERGENERATIONAL

15. PLAY ON: TAKE AWAY
Gaming for senior citizens: on all
levels of well-being
More open ended plays
Translocality

16. Download report Play On! (Dutch): http://www.stt.nl/
Jacco van Uden (STT), email: vanuden@stt.nl
Sabine Wildevuur (Waag Society),
email: sabine@waag.org