This talk describes how personal health sensors can be added to games in order to engage and sustain motivation of users. A developer tool called CommonSenses by Elbrys Networks is described in the last few slides to enable applications to use any sensor and not tie themselves to only one.

1. My Sensor Said So: What Personal
Biometric Sensors Can Do Now for
Games & What They'll Do Next...
Jim Burns
Elbrys Networks
jeb@elbrys.com
@jebpublic
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2. What I’m Playing
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3. Active Enough
Inactive
Extremely Active
Very Active
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4. “Unrealistic Optimists “
By DenisGiles. flickr.com. Creative Commons License.
A cross-sectional study of awareness of physical activity: associations with personal, behavioral and psychosocial factors
Esther MF van Sluijs, 1 Simon J Griffin,1 and Mireille NM van Poppel2,3
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5. Truth
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6. Truth
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7. Truth
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8. Truth
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9. Truth
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10. Truth
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11. Truth
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12. Truth
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13. Truth
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14. Truth
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15. Truth
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16. 21
steps
2
73 24
2c
alo
r ies
11 lbs
1/7 5
6 111 bpm 1 8
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17. Story.
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18. Inserting Sensor Data Into A Story
Story
Game Elements
Metadata Other Players Metadata
NPC
Player’s
Friends Metrics Environment
• Steps Player Metrics
• Intensity (5 levels) Resources / • Steps
• Heart rate Economy • Intensity (5 levels)
• Activity type • Heart rate
• Weight • Activity type
• Blood Pressure Rules • Weight
• Blood Glucose • Blood Pressure
• Compliance Player • Blood Glucose
• Compliance
character /
avatar
Input
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19. Audio Only
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20. Boardgames / Card games
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21. Social Games
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22. FDA, HIPPA and Other Bugbears
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23. Future…
9333
Steps
Moved
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24. CommonSenses SensorManager
Powered by
Powered by
Manage My Sensors
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25. CommonSenses Offer Manager
Offer
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26. Initializing CommonSenses…
commonSensesEnemyTeam = CommonSenses("1002945181186797796493",
"Xa1xziV5EQOPjkNK2bDhxUo41MlYB9ZKkeg4zrcSGjGaSvIcynV5nr6rYmWd5l/GADQFsCtfuDX6wj2TXHBShQ==”,
"1081650638722930493760”,
http://api-test.commonsenses.com:8080,
"enemy");
commonSensesEnemyTeam.setCycleTime(3600);
commonSensesEnemyTeam.setup(function(flag)
{
if (flag)
{
// ready to get metric data
}
else
{
console.log("Failed to setup commonSensesEnemyTeam");
}
});
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27. Getting Metrics…
commonSensesEnemyTeam.getMetrics(loadMetric);
And then…
function loadMetric(timeString,userInfo,count)
{
// then use userInfo and count
}
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28. Step Attack Demo
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29. Questions?
• Me
– jeb@elbrys.com
– @jebpublic
• CommonSenses Developer Documentation (Alpha)
– http://bit.ly/Mo4wBA
• CommonSenses Main Site
– http://www.CommonSenses.com
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30. Thank You!
Jim Burns
Elbrys Networks
jeb@elbrys.com
@jebpublic
June 12-1, 2013 November 5-6, 2012
Boston, MA www.gamesforhealtheurope.org
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